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I don’t know what I’ve done to my Himax box, but I can’t get back to my earlier screen resolution. I’ve been into menu, TV set up, Screen Ration and fiddled about and the picture is even smaller now! Please can someone advise me as to get back to where I was? Many thanks

I searched for help with the Iomega HD and found a YouTube video explaining how to take it to bits and check inside. So I did this and nothing seemed amiss. I put it back together and now it works, even though I didn't do anything to it! I'll see how I get on with the WD Passport portable HD...

The reason for the reply was that I was asked to give details of the HD's I was using. I am most appreciative of all the help I am receiving on this forum, and the pleasant way in which everyone has treated what may be to some members, my rather naive questions.

One of the HD's is a WD Passport portable. I don't know if it's USB 2 or 3 sorry, but it works on my imac OSX. The other one is an Iomega desktop, but I can't tell you any more about it, because neither my imac nor my old Dell laptop will detect it. When I plug it in to the mains and connect it...

Thanks for all the really helpful answers. I can live without my recorded videos, except for Monty Don. I had over 70 Gardener's World progs saved for viewing on miserable wintry days...... However, I think the external Hd I was using was faulty, since I have tried it on both of my computers and...

Thank you for that, Trev. Please can you tell me: Should I/can I undo the formatting? How can I get my Humax box to recognise my external Hard Drive? I hope you don't mind me asking all these questions and many thank for your help. P.S. Like your hat........

I connected my external hard drive for the first time today to my FOXSAT-HDR and thought I was following the instructions to format it. I went to: Menu System HDD Control There it said Format HDD, so I clicked on that and got the options: Video/Radio Partition Music/Photo Partition So I...