Leonthefixer
Member
Hi,
First post.
I have found the information on the forum loads of help in buying and setting up an external hard drive for my Humax HDR-Fox T2 PVR.
I got a Seagate 2TB HDD yesterday and formatted as per suggestion on the forum to EXT3 using GParted by creating a boot CD for it (the first CD didn't work but it did the second time round).
I then connected the Seagate 2TB HDD to my Humax and wanted to move some recordings from the inbuilt 1TB HDD to the new Seagate 2TB HDD.
The only option I could see to do this was to select the folder and then 'Copy' the file over. Then once it was copied I deleted the folder from the Humax HDD. It seemed to take quite a long time to 'Copy' the files over, I was expecting it to be much quicker especially given how many files I want to move.
There didn't seem to be an option to 'Move' just 'Copy' so each time I move a folder I then have to manually delete it from the Humax HDD. That isn't the end of the world but it is a bit of a pain especially if there is a better way.
(Edit: I should add in case it makes any difference that the Seagate 2TB HDD is plugged via the USB into the back of the Humax PVR and the Seagate 2TB HDD has it's own power supply)
So:
1.
Is there an easier/better way of getting existing recordings from the Humax Internal HDD to the External Seagate HDD?
2. I can't seem to get the PVR to record directly to the new External Seagate 2TB HDD. The recordings keep going onto the internal Humax HDD. Can this be changed? It would then mean I don't have to manually move recordings from one HDD to another.
3. I also want to play back my recordings that are on the External 2TB HDD via XBMC media player. I can 'see' the recordings that are still on the Humax's internal HDD but I can't 'find' the recordings that have been moved to the External HDD. Any help on this would be great.
Many thanks to anyone who can offer advice - as I say I have found the info on here really useful to get this far but couldn't find the above 3 answers anywhere on here (or the web).
TIA.
First post.
I have found the information on the forum loads of help in buying and setting up an external hard drive for my Humax HDR-Fox T2 PVR.
I got a Seagate 2TB HDD yesterday and formatted as per suggestion on the forum to EXT3 using GParted by creating a boot CD for it (the first CD didn't work but it did the second time round).
I then connected the Seagate 2TB HDD to my Humax and wanted to move some recordings from the inbuilt 1TB HDD to the new Seagate 2TB HDD.
The only option I could see to do this was to select the folder and then 'Copy' the file over. Then once it was copied I deleted the folder from the Humax HDD. It seemed to take quite a long time to 'Copy' the files over, I was expecting it to be much quicker especially given how many files I want to move.
There didn't seem to be an option to 'Move' just 'Copy' so each time I move a folder I then have to manually delete it from the Humax HDD. That isn't the end of the world but it is a bit of a pain especially if there is a better way.
(Edit: I should add in case it makes any difference that the Seagate 2TB HDD is plugged via the USB into the back of the Humax PVR and the Seagate 2TB HDD has it's own power supply)
So:
1.
Is there an easier/better way of getting existing recordings from the Humax Internal HDD to the External Seagate HDD?
2. I can't seem to get the PVR to record directly to the new External Seagate 2TB HDD. The recordings keep going onto the internal Humax HDD. Can this be changed? It would then mean I don't have to manually move recordings from one HDD to another.
3. I also want to play back my recordings that are on the External 2TB HDD via XBMC media player. I can 'see' the recordings that are still on the Humax's internal HDD but I can't 'find' the recordings that have been moved to the External HDD. Any help on this would be great.
Many thanks to anyone who can offer advice - as I say I have found the info on here really useful to get this far but couldn't find the above 3 answers anywhere on here (or the web).
TIA.