blade box recording help

[seangraves]

hi to all sorry might be in wrong forum ive got blade box which is bm7000s..im wanting to record with it i got a 1tb samsumg external harddrive the blade box not reconizing it how do i solve this problem ,ntsc format on hardrive ....idiots guide to solve please thanks

[cactikid]

with thanks to bobby123 for this.

How to Format a USB HDD
For all USB HDD***8217;s less than 30GB:
1. Connect the hard disc via USB to your PC
2. Right click (with the mouse) on My Computer (found on the Desktop)
3. Go to Manage
4. Go to Disk Management
5. Right click on the USB drive
6. Click on Delete Partition and follow the procedures
7. When this has finished, a new drive will appear. Select the drive with the
largest file size and Right click on it. 8. Go to Make a New Partition (it has to be primary). Do not format it.
9. Right click on the USB drive and set the partition as Active
10. When this has finished, connect your
Go to Menu > USB > Management >
Format Disk and press OK

For all USB HDD***8217;s more than 30GB:
DO NOT FORMAT THE HDD IN TH
1. Connect the hard disc via USB to your PC
2. Right click (with the mouse) on My Computer (found on the Desktop)
3. Go to Manage
4. Go to Disk Management
5. Right click on the USB drive
6. Click on Delete Partition and follow the procedures
7. When this has finished, a new drive will appear. Select the drive with the
largest file size and Right click on it. 8. Go to Make a New Partition (it has to be Primary). Assign a drive letter, for
example, f:
9. Select: Do not Format this Partition and follow the procedures
10. Right click on the USB drive and set the partition as Active
11. Copy the attached fat32format.exe file to your C: Drive, found in: My
Computer > C:
12. Go to Start > Run > enter CMD > OK
13. Enter: cd c:\
14. Enter: fat32format f: (if you used f: in step 8, if not, enter the drive letter you
used)
15. The following message will appear: Warning ALL data on drive 'f' will be lost
irretrievably, are you sure (y/n)
16. Enter: y
17. Wait until it says Done
18. When this has finished, connect your USB drive to the Blade HD Receiver,
and go to Menu > USB > Management >
Format Disk and press OK
19. Do not use the Management menu found in the USB Menu of the receiver
NB: The receiver (like most PVR's) only sees one partition on very large drives
(eg. 30gig and above), so must be formatted with with only one partition.
We recommend the program LINKFORMATTER (it is free, google for linkformatter.zip)
to format very large hard drives. This program forces the whole HDD to format
into one partition on FAT32

[makky1]

I used a free program called swissknife and followed the very easy instructions to convert a 500gb harddrive to fat32