Hounddogman
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Apologies for dragging out this perennial topic. But I've been away from this forum for over six years and I can't find what I need to know now.
Background: about ten years ago when my local broadcasts went digital I bought a Humax T2. Then I moved a few years later to a part of Sheffield where it's just about impossible to get a strong constant TV signal and switched to Virgin cable and started using a TIVO instead. Now, seven years after, I've moved again and I'm in a place where I've got a line of sight reception from the main Sheffield mast a mile away and Virgin won't supply their usual crap service anyway. So I dug out the Humax and reconnected. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's useless: I found a mini music centre with minidisk player in it recently in a charity shop and I use it to play my old MDs from 20 years ago. That is still a very good format for music although there are times when I suspect I've been living in Yorkshire for too long.
Great so far. Things record as clear as a bell. But I'd like to connect up a USB disk to use for extra storage as I keep a lot of stuff like classic movies, Attenborough series (for the wife) and cop shows like Spiral for (re)viewing later. I've also got some stuff left over from 2011-14 that I'd like to hang on to. All of this is in SD not HD. I'm running out of space, so I got a cheapish (£40) 1Tb external drive off Amazon intending to use this as a secondary store. And found out the usual things: it's formatted NTFS (and can only be formatted that way or exFAT) so the Humax recognises it but won't let me transfer recordings to it. I have, however, turned up an old Seagate external drive from c 10 years ago (mains powered!) that I used to use for image backups etc on my PC that I should be able to format to FAT32 I can start using the new one for image backups etc on my current Windows 10 PC. I've gone through a lot of stuff here but I can't find a definitive answwer to my questions. Which are:
All advice gratefully received. Thanks in advance.
Background: about ten years ago when my local broadcasts went digital I bought a Humax T2. Then I moved a few years later to a part of Sheffield where it's just about impossible to get a strong constant TV signal and switched to Virgin cable and started using a TIVO instead. Now, seven years after, I've moved again and I'm in a place where I've got a line of sight reception from the main Sheffield mast a mile away and Virgin won't supply their usual crap service anyway. So I dug out the Humax and reconnected. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's useless: I found a mini music centre with minidisk player in it recently in a charity shop and I use it to play my old MDs from 20 years ago. That is still a very good format for music although there are times when I suspect I've been living in Yorkshire for too long.
Great so far. Things record as clear as a bell. But I'd like to connect up a USB disk to use for extra storage as I keep a lot of stuff like classic movies, Attenborough series (for the wife) and cop shows like Spiral for (re)viewing later. I've also got some stuff left over from 2011-14 that I'd like to hang on to. All of this is in SD not HD. I'm running out of space, so I got a cheapish (£40) 1Tb external drive off Amazon intending to use this as a secondary store. And found out the usual things: it's formatted NTFS (and can only be formatted that way or exFAT) so the Humax recognises it but won't let me transfer recordings to it. I have, however, turned up an old Seagate external drive from c 10 years ago (mains powered!) that I used to use for image backups etc on my PC that I should be able to format to FAT32 I can start using the new one for image backups etc on my current Windows 10 PC. I've gone through a lot of stuff here but I can't find a definitive answwer to my questions. Which are:
- Is there now a way to use NTFS formatted external drives to hold video recordings made on the Humax? If so how do I go about that?
- Or would I be better off using my old drive formatted to FAT32? And will that still work?
- Or is there some workaround to be had by setting up a network and making both the Humax and the HDD parts of it?