Hi

I am in need of some advice re connecting an external Hard drive to my Foxsat, in fact am running two Foxsat HDR's on in the bedroom and one in the living room. I bought a Seagate 2TB external hard drive with USB 3.0 to use to take programs recorded on the upstairs machine and bring them downstairs as well as acting as an overspill drive on the downstairs Foxsat which always seems be using 90% of its storage capacity. This all works very well. However I want to burn a couple of things to disc using Videoredo TV suite and when I connect the drive to my PC it isn't recognised at all. I don't recall formating it to EXT3 but I presumed that I had. The PC is running Windows 8.1, I have tried it on an older PC running XP and nothing. I have Ext2FSD running and apart from a ping when the drive is connected nothing. Is it possible that if I didn't reformat to Ext3 then the Foxsat has reformatted the drive. If so is it possible to see this using Windows? Or is my only hope to delete my programs off the Seagate drive and find a way to format it to EXT3 if possible although as the PC can't see it at all I am not sure how this can be done.

Thanks in advance

All the best

Joolio

Install a Linux EXT3 driver on your PC should give you access (are you sure you have set up the software). The drive will then appear in Windows Explorer like any other. Note the default is read only, you have to turn on write capability.

http://www.ext2fsd.com/

The foxsat can't format a drive connected by usb.

Hi Graham

Thanks for the advice - I checked Ext2FSD and it required me to tick the box to run the HDD from start up. Works fine now.

Thanks again.

All the best

Joolio

Good news