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I checked the format of the old 3.5” drive that came with the 2000t and it is a standard exfat format. I formatted the 2.5” drive the same exfat and installed it into the old 1800t. At the minute it tells me that it’s formatting but I’m not holding my breath! Anyone any ideas why this formatting procedure seems to destroy the hd format when I reconnect it to my max to check the format??
Music4fun – 23 hours ago »
I checked the format of the old 3.5” drive that came with the 2000t and it is a standard exfat format.
How did you check? I have just checked the hard drive I removed from an HDR-2000T and it has three partitions which are all formatted as Ext3.
Anyone any ideas why this formatting procedure seems to destroy the hd format when I reconnect it to my max to check the format??
Forgive my ignorance but what do you mean by “max”?
Music4fun – 23 hours ago »
I checked the format of the old 3.5” drive that came with the 2000t and it is a standard exfat format.
How did you check? I have just checked the hard drive I removed from an HDR-2000T and it has three partitions which are all formatted as Ext3.
Anyone any ideas why this formatting procedure seems to destroy the hd format when I reconnect it to my max to check the format??
Forgive my ignorance but what do you mean by “max”?
Hi Martin. I put the drive than came out of the 2000t into an external “caddy” and it showed as exfat format. I have also tried ntfs, fat32 as well and whilst the Humax tested the drive out and found no errors (to be expected as I normally use this drive to store my photographs on) but the Humax simply hangs on format! The max should have read Mac! Don’t you love predictive txt!! When you changed your drive did you format it externally or just install it and let the Humax “sort it out”?
Music4fun – 27 mins ago »
I put the drive than came out of the 2000t into an external “caddy” and it showed as exfat format.
Sorry I can’t explain that but the Humax needs Ext3.
When you changed your drive did you format it externally or just install it and let the Humax “sort it out”?
I just installed it and the Humax formatted it.
I’m not sure whether I should have partitioned this drive down into 3 250g partitions but I am formatting this to Ext3 as a single 750 gig drive. If you hear an explosion in about 1/2 hr I have failed again
I’m not sure whether I should have partitioned this drive down into 3 250g partitions but I am formatting this to Ext3 as a single 750 gig drive. If you hear an explosion in about 1/2 hr I have failed again
I am partitioning the drive at the minute to Ext3. I’m unsure whether I should have split it down to 3 250 gig drives but I am just leaving it as one single drive. More info to follow, fingers crossed!
Can you advise please. When you said that your drive had 3 ext3 folders in have you any idea of the Folder capacities? Also what was the drive capacity please. “Processing”is still there either unbelievably slow or “hanging”
Cheers for the info
Music4fun – 17 hours ago »
Can you advise please. When you said that your drive had 3 ext3 folders in have you any idea of the Folder capacities? Also what was the drive capacity please.
The first partition is 1.1GB, the second partition is 488GB and the third partition 11GB. The drive is 500GB. For a drive with a larger or small er capacity keep the first and last partitions the same size and change the size of the middle partition so that the full capacity of the drive is used.
Hi Martin, thank you so much for the information. Very informative. Both machines now running. The 1800t with a 750g drive and the 2000t with a 1t seagate. I will reformat that 750g to your settings when I have watched all of the recorded programs. Both machines seem to want a factory reset on changing the drives and aren’t keen on seeing the “storage” until a program is recorded then all seems ok. Must be one of humax’s little querks! Once again thanks very much!
Regards Norman
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