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inspector

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I Can't copy any recording to USB. The USB flashes, but doesn't stop flashing!
Normally, I copy recordings to play on a HDR2000 in another room after renaming .recordings to recordings (removing the full stop) this has worked OK in the past.
I have formatted two USB's but it still won't work.
Any ideas please?

| Thu 9 Dec 2021 17:09:11 #1 |
Martin Liddle

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inspector - 22 hours ago »
I have formatted two USB's but it still won't work.

How are you formatting the USB storage? What are the storage capacities of the drives?

| Fri 10 Dec 2021 15:59:32 #2 |
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64Gb exFAT & FAT32 16GB

I've tried a 1tb Samsung portable drive & although it was still flashing, I managed to copy two programs over to the HDR2000.

It used to stop flashing when a copy had completed. Never tried with the other two usb's as there was no "recordings" folder. Didn't check with the Samsung drive.

| Fri 10 Dec 2021 16:13:35 #3 |
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inspector - 2 hours ago »
64Gb exFAT & FAT32 16GB

As far as I know exFAT won't work. I think the supported file systems are ext3, FAT32 or NTFS. You said in your original post "I have formatted two USB's"; please tell us how you formatted them?

| Fri 10 Dec 2021 19:13:51 #4 |
inspector

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rt click USB / format

| Fri 10 Dec 2021 19:53:58 #5 |
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inspector - 4 hours ago »
rt click USB / format

What operating system?

| Sat 11 Dec 2021 0:44:44 #6 |
inspector

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Win 10 Home

| Sat 11 Dec 2021 9:34:50 #7 |
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it's started working again!
FAT32 USB / Copy / stopped flashing when completed copying.
Haven't done anything differently.

I have changed the format of the 64GB Usb though.

| Sat 11 Dec 2021 10:30:19 #8 |
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inspector - 1 hour ago »
it's started working again!
FAT32 USB / Copy / stopped flashing when completed copying.
Haven't done anything differently.
I have changed the format of the 64GB Usb though.

Good, I was wondering if Windows 10 had used a GPT style partition table and I don't know for certain whether that is supported on an FVP-5000T. There is a fairly simple way of finding out using the procedure in this link https://www.softthinks.com/how_to/How%20to%20know%20if%20my%20USB%20Drive%20is%20using%20GPT%20or%20MBR%20partition%20style.html If you have time it would be interesting to know what partition style the USB that works is using and whether the one that doesn't work is using the same style?

| Sat 11 Dec 2021 12:09:01 #9 |
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After clicking on your hyperlink, RT clicking on Start doesn't display the same menu.
I am using the Shell startup menu.

| Sun 12 Dec 2021 10:19:51 #10 |