NEED HELP new ESATA hard drive

hello everyone
just got a new ESATA hard drive so i can record on my dm800hd

but when i try to record it says no HDD found or HDD not initialised

is this something i need to do on my comp to initialise it?

can somebody help me with this pls ASAP

ps it is connected through usb

thanks
leanne x

 

format the HDD to fat 32 and it should work for you then

 

if the drive is over a certain size you may need to partition it , so if the drive is a TB drive, you wont be able to flash to FAT, as its to big, download swissknife in the case and partion the drive into smaller sizes

 

hi
i am on windows 7 and its not showing FAT32, it is just NTFS and EXFAT

no idea what to do
have tried foramting it on devices manager through dreambox and tried mounting it but when its plugged in its not recognising it, it says no HDD and on the USB DRIVE its just the same

can someone help me with this
and hard drive size is just 500gb

thanks
leanne xx

 

if you read what I said above, you need to download SWISSKNIFE

http://download.cnet.com/CompuApps-SwissKnife-V3/3000-2248_4-10070864.html

Install, then run, plug your drive in and then format the drive with swissknife to FAT32, a drive of this size cant be formatted by windows

 

keeps telling me swissknife is incompatable with my version of windows-windows 7

any other ideas
really wanna get this sorted

thanks
leanne x

 

ok i have formatted it to FAT32
it is showing up devices manager on usb drive 2 but still says no HDD/no initilised

in devices manager it mentions mount/unmount and format

so is there anything i need to do?

thanks
leanne x

 

You can try this
http://www.partition-magic-windows7.com/download.html

Formats to fat 32

And this

Both work

http://www.partition-tool.com/

and this

http://www.aomeitech.com/n2f/index.html

Will change your drive to FAT32

 

can you read my post above yours, i just used this program, it is now formatted but still having probs as above

thanks
leanne x

 

you need to FORMAT, use the programme to format it to FAT32, if you plug the drive in and your PC see's it in my computer, if you right click the drive and then properties, it will tell you if its NTFS or FAT etc,

 

yea done it, it is showing FAT32 in properties
but its now not showing in devices manager at all

really fed up with it now
just dont know whats wrong

leanne x

 

it will show up in device management under your usb device on your pc as drive (E) (F) what ever it put it to

 

are you able to try a different usb port on your dm800hd? or does it only have 1 usb port?

 

thanks for all your help got it sorted now, its recording fine now,
just one more problem, it seems when i turn the power off and on again on the HDD, it needs initialising again, which means any previous recordings disappear, i lose them all

anyone know if there is a way around this?

thanks
leanne x

 

the hard drive is faulty. the internals of these hdds is obviously a hard drive and an interface card that connects to the pata connector of the hard drive. the problems you are having are typical of a cheap external drive. had the exact same problems with a medion from aldi. never again. advise, buy a decent drive

 

I agree, got a medion 750gig and it lasted about 6 months and just died, those HD out of lidl/aldi are rubbish, agree with Fint, stay away, Amazon do a great deal on a 1tb WD drive,

 

strange thing mickah is that i opened up the internals of the drive to find a seagate barracuda 1tb drive which i rate well. so i took it out of the plastics and installed it as an internal drive in my vu+ system. the system did recognize it but it was not possible to write to it. have an hitachi drive that has been on 24*7 for 2 years. Never an issue. Paid maybe 40 euro more but at least i have never lost all movies i have taped. and that is worth the extra money

 

I bought one on fleabay, OMATA but its a WD Drive in it, its been working away no probs, but those medion ones seem to crawl into a ball and die