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Hi,
I’ve plugged numerous exernal drives and USB sticks into my FOXSAT HDR and while the drive is recognised and I can see files and directories on it, I can’t copy any recordings to it. The Copy option is disabled in the file manager.
Does anyone know why this is?
Rob
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From the description you have posted it sounds as if the HDD’s you are connecting are not formatted for file transfer, and are NTFS I presume, as you can read the contents.
HDD’s connected via usb have to be formatted as Fat 32 (for transfer of files less then 4Gb in size) or ext3 for larger transfers.
If you can confirm the file format of the drives you are attempting to use, then one of us can take it form there.
Ah, that would explain it – mine are all NTFS. I’ll look into the ext3 format as I will be needing files of > 4GB in size.
Thanks!
grahamlthompson – 8 minutes ago »
Barry do Foxsat-hdrs now read NTFS like the Freeview hdrs ?
Thought they always did, though I stand to be corrected, easilly confused nowadays, so much going on 😉
Edit:
Sorry my mistake 😳
Apologises to the OP, whilst we got to the root of the problem, it was more by luck then judgement.
That’s a shame it would be handy at times.
No read and write are the same and afaik are FAT and EXT3 nothing else.
As the OP can see the drive presumably it’s FAT32 so just opening the usb drive icon should enable copying by moving to it and pressing OK (Max 4GB of course)
I don’t know if anyone else uses this, but I’ve found a free app for Windows (which I run in Parallels on my Mac) that has a nice ext3 formatter in it.
Its a nice simple solution.
Bermudabob – 1 hour ago »
I don’t know if anyone else uses this, but I’ve found a free app for Windows (which I run in Parallels on my Mac) that has a nice ext3 formatter in it.
Its a nice simple solution.
Easeus partition manager is also very simple for Windows users
Have failed to copy a short video clip (6 minutes)to my 4GB USB stick – stick is formatted to FAT32 (Copy button unavailable). Does anyone have an suggestions? Thanks.
machiavelli – 51 minutes ago »
Have failed to copy a short video clip (6 minutes)to my 4GB USB stick – stick is formatted to FAT32 (Copy button unavailable). Does anyone have an suggestions? Thanks.
You have to open the usb drive to it’s root folder by clicking OK on it in file manager. Now when you highlight a file in the left pane the copy option should be enabled
Welcome to the forum
Mission accomplished!
Many thanks
Bermudabob – 4 months ago »
I don’t know if anyone else uses this, but I’ve found a free app for Windows (which I run in Parallels on my Mac) that has a nice ext3 formatter in it.
Its a nice simple solution.
Just installed this on my Windows Vista 32 laptop to reformat as EXT3 an old 400GB USB hard drive I had laying around doing nothing. Recognised by my Foxsat HDR and currently copying over some recordings so I can free up space on its inbuilt small 320GB.
machiavelli – 7 months ago »
Have failed to copy a short video clip (6 minutes)to my 4GB USB stick – stick is formatted to FAT32 (Copy button unavailable). Does anyone have an suggestions? Thanks.
Hi your usb drive may be write protected.To remove write protection you can follow this
1.Open a new note pad file.
2.Copy this
cd
reg add “HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies” /t Reg_dword /v
WriteProtect /f /d 0
3.save it as DISABLEWP.BAT
4.Then copy it to start up folder.
When you insert a pendrive it remove write protection.
Or simply use some software that helps to fix this kind of error.
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