Copy/Move recordings to External HDD

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Copy/Move recordings to External HDD

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crashcris - 1 week ago »
@Luke, yes, that's why I'll need to buy another HDD because there's a lot that I do want to keep even if I don't have complete programmes. I'm not going to format it till I've saved on another drive
@Martin Liddle, I think I'm a little stumped on this as so far I've tried formatting a memory stick in ExFAT and Mac OS Extended. When I put the stick into the Humax it can't write to it or read it. Only when I reformat it back to FAT32 does it work as before (but with a 4GB restriction). Oh the joys of a Mac. If I get a mate to format it into NTFS on a PC, will it then be able to be read on my Mac or will it only work with a PC? Thanks.

Only last week I reformatted a 3TB HDD to ex-fat and moved over 2TB of videos to my iMac. No issues whatsoever and the drive can be seen either by MacOS or Windows.

| Tue 16 Jul 2019 3:12:20 #21 |
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Faust - 6 hours ago »
Only last week I reformatted a 3TB HDD to ex-fat and moved over 2TB of videos to my iMac. No issues whatsoever and the drive can be seen either by MacOS or Windows.

But can it be read and written to by an HDR-2000T?

| Tue 16 Jul 2019 10:01:39 #22 |
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Martin Liddle - 10 hours ago »

Faust - 6 hours ago »
Only last week I reformatted a 3TB HDD to ex-fat and moved over 2TB of videos to my iMac. No issues whatsoever and the drive can be seen either by MacOS or Windows.

But can it be read and written to by an HDR-2000T?

No idea as I’ve long since retired my 2000T to take up position as door stop.

| Tue 16 Jul 2019 20:43:24 #23 |
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Martin Liddle - 10 hours ago »
But can it be read and written to by an HDR-2000T?

No idea as I’ve long since retired my 2000T to take up position as door stop.

But this thread is about moving content from an HDR-2000T.

| Tue 16 Jul 2019 23:10:35 #24 |
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No idea as I’ve long since retired my 2000T to take up position as door stop.

But this thread is about moving content from an HDR-2000T.

SUCCESS!

I had to phone the Western Digital help desk, 23p/min. They initially showed me how to get the HDD to be recognised by my 2000T using a mac. Applications>Utilities>DiscUtility> click the WD Elements disc, then click "View" (top left hand corner) > Show All Devices.>Erase, Which showed a part of the HDD, which gave a new box to click which wasn't previously there, "Scheme"> Master Boot Record> Erase. This formatted it to Fat32 (which is all I could do on my mac, but it was now read/writeable on the Humax. Then my mate plugged it into his PC and formatted it once again in NTFS (he said he did it the same as previously) and for what ever reasons, the Humax now can write files much bigger than 4GB to the HDD.

Many thanks for all those who helped in assisting me on this one, hopefully this can help others in the future with similar probs.

Many thanks. Cris.

| Fri 19 Jul 2019 13:18:58 #25 |
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Martin Liddle - 2 days ago »

Faust - 2 hours ago »

Martin Liddle - 10 hours ago »
But can it be read and written to by an HDR-2000T?

No idea as I’ve long since retired my 2000T to take up position as door stop.

But this thread is about moving content from an HDR-2000T.

Yep, done lots of that in the past (SD of course). Just connected a USB drive copied them, put them on the PC for a bit of editing, saved them back in different format and I can now use them pretty much where I want.

| Fri 19 Jul 2019 14:27:17 #26 |
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Faust - 2 hours ago »
Yep, done lots of that in the past (SD of course). Just connected a USB drive copied them, put them on the PC for a bit of editing,

So tell us what format the drive was formatted in: FAT32, NTFS, ext3,..?

| Fri 19 Jul 2019 16:50:22 #27 |
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Martin Liddle - 19 hours ago »

Faust - 2 hours ago »
Yep, done lots of that in the past (SD of course). Just connected a USB drive copied them, put them on the PC for a bit of editing,

So tell us what format the drive was formatted in: FAT32, NTFS, ext3,..?

Given it's around 2 years ago now I'm struggling to remember. However, given I used mainly an external WD FreeAgent Go drive which I also use for Acronis Windows backups I'm pretty sure it would be NTFS. The thumb drives I have used are Fat 32.

As an aside. My Mac can not only see the NTFS drive but can play the transport stream as copied from the Human 2000T as I've just tried it out.

| Sat 20 Jul 2019 12:29:12 #28 |
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Faust - 1 hour ago »
Given it's around 2 years ago now I'm struggling to remember. However, given I used mainly an external WD FreeAgent Go drive which I also use for Acronis Windows backups I'm pretty sure it would be NTFS.

I thought an NTFS drive would be OK but the OP couldn't get it to work.

| Sat 20 Jul 2019 13:31:54 #29 |
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Martin Liddle - 2 hours ago »

Faust - 1 hour ago »
Given it's around 2 years ago now I'm struggling to remember. However, given I used mainly an external WD FreeAgent Go drive which I also use for Acronis Windows backups I'm pretty sure it would be NTFS.

I thought an NTFS drive would be OK but the OP couldn't get it to work.

Did you not see my post #25 above? I’ve got it working, first on fat32 and now NTFS. Everything’s being moved to my new WD HDD. My Stormzy and The Cure Glastonbury recordings are now complete. Yippie!

| Sat 20 Jul 2019 16:02:14 #30 |