From memory you may need to move a jumper on the Sata drive, to reduce its speed.
go for a lower number.
Hi Martin, thanks for the quick response.
The drive is a Toshiba mq01ABD075 750gig laptop drive.
As Fixdid pointed out I wasn’t even aware of the “jumpers” on these drives. I have checked this drive and the 4 pins are there but there is no jumper in place. As I said previously I took the 1tT drive from this machine to put in the 2000T (which I picked up for a very reasonable £25 in good order and it is working fine. I think my next move is to have a look at the jumper “situation” on that drive and see what is there?
I have just had a quick look at the drive that was originally in the 2000T ( a standard 3 1.2 inch 500 gig drive and again 4 empty pins in the jumper area.
I simply don’t understand the issue as when I replaced the “old 350 gig drive on my 1800T quite some time ago with the 1T laptop drive I just fitted it in, booted the machine up, the machine asked for the hd to be formatted (which I did) and “bobs you fathers brother” away it went! Very curious!!
Fixdit - 5 hours ago »
From memory you may need to move a jumper on the Sata drive, to reduce its speed.
go for a lower number.
Reducing the SATA speed is required for the FOXSAT HDR but I don't recall it being necessary for an HDR-1800T. I have fitted a SATA III drive to an HDR-2000T without any problem.
I checked the format of the old 3.5” drive that came with the 2000t and it is a standard exfat format. I formatted the 2.5” drive the same exfat and installed it into the old 1800t. At the minute it tells me that it’s formatting but I’m not holding my breath! Anyone any ideas why this formatting procedure seems to destroy the hd format when I reconnect it to my max to check the format??
Music4fun - 23 hours ago »
I checked the format of the old 3.5” drive that came with the 2000t and it is a standard exfat format.
How did you check? I have just checked the hard drive I removed from an HDR-2000T and it has three partitions which are all formatted as Ext3.
Anyone any ideas why this formatting procedure seems to destroy the hd format when I reconnect it to my max to check the format??
Forgive my ignorance but what do you mean by "max"?
Music4fun - 23 hours ago »
I checked the format of the old 3.5” drive that came with the 2000t and it is a standard exfat format.
How did you check? I have just checked the hard drive I removed from an HDR-2000T and it has three partitions which are all formatted as Ext3.
Anyone any ideas why this formatting procedure seems to destroy the hd format when I reconnect it to my max to check the format??
Forgive my ignorance but what do you mean by "max"?
Hi Martin. I put the drive than came out of the 2000t into an external “caddy” and it showed as exfat format. I have also tried ntfs, fat32 as well and whilst the Humax tested the drive out and found no errors (to be expected as I normally use this drive to store my photographs on) but the Humax simply hangs on format! The max should have read Mac! Don’t you love predictive txt!! When you changed your drive did you format it externally or just install it and let the Humax “sort it out”?
Music4fun - 27 mins ago »
I put the drive than came out of the 2000t into an external “caddy” and it showed as exfat format.
Sorry I can't explain that but the Humax needs Ext3.
When you changed your drive did you format it externally or just install it and let the Humax “sort it out”?
I just installed it and the Humax formatted it.
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