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   wvdheiden
   

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   Hi

   This week the original HD of my 9200C gave up. I searched my old stuff and came up with a 500GB USB drive that still contained an IDE drive. I removed it and build it in my Humax.
   It started and a message "Do you want to format the drive" came up. I selected "OK" and it asked for my system password. I gave it and after 1 second "Formatting ready" Appeared. After klicking OK it rebooted and then cam up with the same question again. I tried a few times but it stayed that way.
   Selecting "NO" on the format question brings the Humax in normal mode but it does not recognize the disk and does not allow recording.
   What do I do wrong? The drive is normally working on a PC.

   Thanks in advance!

   Walter

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 7:50:01 #1 |
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   Martin Liddle
   

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   So what make and model of hard drive is it?

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 8:36:53 #2 |
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   wvdheiden
   

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   Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 Model ST3250823A
   and it is a 250, not a 500...

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 9:17:01 #3 |
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   Martin Liddle
   

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   How are the jumpers configured?. 9200T uses Cable select. Note the drive you are trying to use is not an ACE type designed for use in PVRs and so you may experience some subsequent problems but I would expect it to format OK.

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 11:47:24 #4 |
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   wvdheiden
   

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   Yeah I figured that out already, I set it to CS.
   I already saw reactions on the forum that you run into standby problems when using a non-AV drive. But I did not expect problems @ this stage.
   Thanks for your help anyway! Highly appreciated!

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 14:19:51 #5 |
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   Martin Liddle
   

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   I am puzzled. I have seen the behaviour you report but only on a drive that was in such a bad state that the Seagate SeaTools flagged practically every sector as bad. Might be worth running the Seagate diagnostics on it and see if they report anything.

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 17:20:50 #6 |
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   Richard MQ
   

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   Is the disc partitioned? I had an issue with one that was, Easy to clear the partition table with a Linux box, not sure how to do so with M$

   I think they use their own non-standard format so an empty table is probably best.

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 19:01:49 #7 |
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   wvdheiden
   

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   No i just put it in, was MAC OS X formatted, I hate windows....
   But good point, I'll try that, thanks!

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 19:15:55 #8 |
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   Richard MQ - 1 hour ago  » 
   Is the disc partitioned? I had an issue with one that was,

   I have regularly formatted disks in the Humax that have previously been formatted on a PC and I haven't had any problem. What happened with yours?

   | Mon 13 Jun 2011 20:58:03 #9 |
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    Richard MQ
    

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    I don't use M$ Windows (except at work where I have no choice) - both Linux and Mac generally use multiple partitions on a disc whereas (the default in) M$ is a single block. I think the problem I had was with one with the fairly standard Linux scheme of boot, swap, LUKS root & LUKS home. The Mac scheme is IIRC much more complex.

    I will be very interested to see if this is the problem for the OP.

    | Wed 15 Jun 2011 17:54:42 #10 |

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