It is very likely my technical incompetence that has prevented me finding a solution to this in the existing forums. However, I would very much appreciate an idiot's guide, if anyone can provide it.
Scenario: I have an HDR-FOX T2 with about 80 Gb free remaining on the drive. I am able to copy stuff to a Panasonic Freeview box and from there to DVD but this is time-consuming and I want instead to move my Humax content to an external HDD drive, before I fill up the Humax drive.
It seems that the external HDD should be formatted as FAT or ext3. I have tried doing this with a 64 Gb memory stick and with a 250 Gb Iomega HDD, using Minitool Partition Wizard, since my Win 8 PC offers only NTFS and exFAT. Once formatted, the Humax machine doesn't recognise either the stick or the Iomega drive. It did recognise the Iomega when it was formatted as NTFS but told me that I couldn't copy to an NTFS drive (as per the manual). Whatever the format, the Humax didn't recognise the stick.
So, could someone please give me a simple set of instructions on how to move stuff from the Humax to an external source so that I don't run out of storage space on the Humax? I am not entirely IT-stupid as I do have an IT background but that was on mainframes and Unix boxes - my PC and Windows experience was restricted to phone calls to the tech support team.
Thanks in advance
Steve
Scenario: I have an HDR-FOX T2 with about 80 Gb free remaining on the drive. I am able to copy stuff to a Panasonic Freeview box and from there to DVD but this is time-consuming and I want instead to move my Humax content to an external HDD drive, before I fill up the Humax drive.
It seems that the external HDD should be formatted as FAT or ext3. I have tried doing this with a 64 Gb memory stick and with a 250 Gb Iomega HDD, using Minitool Partition Wizard, since my Win 8 PC offers only NTFS and exFAT. Once formatted, the Humax machine doesn't recognise either the stick or the Iomega drive. It did recognise the Iomega when it was formatted as NTFS but told me that I couldn't copy to an NTFS drive (as per the manual). Whatever the format, the Humax didn't recognise the stick.
So, could someone please give me a simple set of instructions on how to move stuff from the Humax to an external source so that I don't run out of storage space on the Humax? I am not entirely IT-stupid as I do have an IT background but that was on mainframes and Unix boxes - my PC and Windows experience was restricted to phone calls to the tech support team.
Thanks in advance
Steve