I have the Humax HDPVR-5000T digital recorder.
I recently bought a 2 TB (2-terabyte) USB hard drive (Western Digital MyPassport Ultra) to use as an additional storage medium. It was factory formatted to the NTFS file system.
However, whenever the HDPVR-5000T tried to format the USB drive, the operation was interrupted, and Humax restarted. After that, the USB drive was no longer recognized at all.
I them tried formatting the USB drive to both ext3 and FAT32 file format on my Windows PC using a third party software. As a result of both operations, the HDPVR-5000T occasionally recognized the drive, but when trying to move recordings to it from HDPVR-5000T's own hard drive, there was always an error message recommending that I detach the USB device to prevent the system from being damaged.
It seems that the WD MyPassport drive is incompatible with the HDPVR-5000T. Would you agree? Is that perhaps because of the size - 2 terabytes - of the drive, or because of something else? (Note that I also tried partitioning the drive into two or three partitions - to no avail.) If the drive is incompatible, could you mention some USB hard drives that are (likely to be) supported by the Humax recorder?
Thanks in advance for advice.