openbox s10 wont recognise external hard drive

**oolas** · 10th October, 2011, 10:40 PM

hey guys im trying to hook up a 50GB hard drive to my s10 box, but its not recognising it

the harddrive is 2.5"HDD in a enclosure hooked up with a usb cable, it powers on, but when i go to the media tab in the menu the hdd settings etc are grey out

when i insert my 2gb usb stick it finds it with no problem

any advice?

**nibblitz** · 10th October, 2011, 11:31 PM

Assuming its formatted ok, its probably not getting enough power from the USB port, you could try a shorter USB lead as sometimes that helps.. Or it just might be your 2.5" enclosure is not compatible, but I bet its a power issue...

**mojavaid36** · 10th October, 2011, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by oolas

hey guys im trying to hook up a 50GB hard drive to my s10 box, but its not recognising it

the harddrive is 2.5"HDD in a enclosure hooked up with a usb cable, it powers on, but when i go to the media tab in the menu the hdd settings etc are grey out

when i insert my 2gb usb stick it finds it with no problem

any advice?

Yes maybe a power issue. You need to also ensure that the drive is formatted to FAT32.

**hypersonic** · 11th October, 2011, 03:56 PM

I am using a 250Gb USB formatted on my PC to NTFS with no problems. Try re formatting the disk on your PC if you are unable to format on you OBox

**oolas** · 11th October, 2011, 07:44 PM

hey guys iv sorted it, it was due to lack of power going to the hard drive, iv pluged in a nokia charger into the hard drive and re connected it to the box and it now finds it,

only problem i got now is when i record HD channels (TS mode) and connect the hard drive to my laptop i can oonly view the recording with no sound playback??? any reason to why this is happening? i can record allright with the other mode but its not working for the HD channels

**nibblitz** · 11th October, 2011, 08:36 PM

Google for "Videolan VLC Player" download VLC Media Player, install and try using that to watch your HD ts files...

**SuhailVincentB** · 23rd October, 2011, 06:41 PM

does it have to and external hard drive powered by mains?

will a portable HDD not be useful which is powered by UBS?

**hypersonic** · 24th October, 2011, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by SuhailVincentB

does it have to and external hard drive powered by mains?

will a portable HDD not be useful which is powered by UBS?

You can use any USB drive, either powered by USB or by a power adaptor. You can also use a USB stick. It can be NTFS or FAT32 formatted. If you have a problem just use the S9/S10 to format the drive.