My first attempt at recording a program using Humax Freesat HD with Freetime HB-1000S box seems to have failed. I used a blank/empty external hdd (Hitachi_DK23FB-4 40GB hdd formatted as NTFS) connected via USB. The Humax box seemed to accept the disk and confirmed that it had space and it also appears to have recorded as scheduled. However it will not replay what appears to be recorded.
Checking the disk contents with a PC (File Explorer under Windows 8.1) shows:
3 folders
1 x .tsr folder with: 40 x hts files each 90,000+ KB, 1 x hjm file and 1 x nts file
1 x .recycleBin folder - empty
1 x Video folder - empty
plus
1 x .mountchk file
1 x .pvr_reg_info file
Total 3.36GB (approx 10% of available disk space)
However the Humax box says that: 1) The disk is full & 2) You have no recordings
Why?
Should the USB hdd be formatted as ext3 not NTFS ?