Formatting external drive

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  • July 30, 2011 at 3:04 pm #12281
    Anonymous
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    So, I have a new 2TB external drive (which had been formatted on aMac). I know I can format it on my HDR Fox T2.

    How long should formatting take? It seems to have been going for over half an hour. I am not surprised that the box does not respond to the remote control. I am wondering if the formatting is stuck or just taking a long time. Maybe I will find out before anyone has time to respond

    What format is used? I see that the machine supports several file systems. I was expecting to be given a choice of which to use.

    July 31, 2011 at 7:55 am #27447
    Barry
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    The HDR will ony format drives up to 1TB, you will have to use another app such as GParted or Easeus Partition Manager to format the Drive – file system to use is ext3 if you are going to transfer large files.

    August 4, 2011 at 4:09 pm #27448
    Anonymous
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    Thanks for that information, which isn’t mentioned in the manual as far as I can see.

    Once I get my drive enclosure working properly (or get a different enclosure) your advice should be easy enough to follow.

    December 10, 2011 at 8:54 am #27449
    Anonymous
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    Hi I bought the WD Element drive 2 tb, I used the software that is free to use, if you have a WD drivecalled Acronis True Image WD Edition, NOT user friendly it would format NTFS and FAT32 but kept throwing up error codes when I tried to format Ext3, the website was no more help just more gobbledygook = more problems. At long last it did let me format Ext3 after 4 hours of frustration.

    Come on Acronis get your act together more help and info built into the software and make It work.

    So I now have 1.8tb of Ext3 I connected it to the HDR-FOX T2 nothing it will work on my Humax if the drive is on before the Humax, so I leave the WD Hard drive plugged in and on and connected at all times hay presto works fine, the drive spins down after a time when not in use so saves power and wear and tear.

    All works fine but don’t select items for deletion on the main drive when your copping stuff to your new drive because it will delete the stuff your copping to the new drive as well.

    Hope this helps

    December 10, 2011 at 11:29 pm #27450
    Anonymous
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    Also the format that worked was MBR, Logical, Ext3.

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