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Hi Damian,
Thanks for the suggestions.
I gave the minitools program a go; the Seagate drive would not work using it as FAT32 in any segment size (I tried them all) or NTFS, it was also unrecognisable to the PS3. Formatting it with the Seagate program for Win7 in FAT32 and it worked again in the PS3 but not the FVP.
The SATA hard drive in a Dynamode case works after formatting as FAT 32 or NTFS using the minitools prog.
It would appear the FVP and Seagate drives do not like each other and that the Seagate formatting program does something particular for Seagate drives to get them visible.
The minitools program is certainly useeful and will allow me to get the other drive I have working.
Thanks for the help, I will pass the findings to Humax.
Hi Bitterman,
great that you got one drive to work. At least you can now play with the others until you figure out what does and doesn’t work for you.
My experience was that I needed a fat32 partition first. If your Seagate has a hidden partition, i.e. for backup software, special firmware etc. first then the fvp4000t will struggle with it. The Seagate software may already have loaded specific windows drivers which may have hindered minitools from accessing the drive normally.
If the Seagate drives have another function, such as backup, NAS, media server, storage hotspot etc. etc. then best to leave well alone. I’m glad you’ve now ruled out a hardware fault on the fvp4000t.
Bitterman – 5 hours ago »
I gave the minitools program a go; the Seagate drive would not work using it as FAT32 in any segment size (I tried them all) or NTFS, it was also unrecognisable to the PS3.
What capacity is the Seagate drive?
The one I tried is 500GB.
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