How do I go about transferring media{movies,shows} from my DVR to a portable hard drive?

portable hard drive not showing up in my computer image

Jonathan C

How do I go about transferring media{movies,shows} from my DVR to a portable hard drive? I have tried hooking Itup to the USP port provided by the DVR, But then what? I cannot find anything In the menu that says anything about what I am trying to do, or even that Is recognizes that a hard drive has even been connected. What now?

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What DVR are we speaking of here?

I know of no DVRs with the capability of even running a hard drive on a USB port, much less allowing you to copy anything.

DV Rs are specialized computers but due to copy right issues, they do not have all the functionality that we take for granted in a computer. Quite simply, they will not let you copy stuff digitally because that sort of activity is ripe for abuse.

Why is my portable hard drive not working?

Pillar of

I've tried to use several portable hard drives with my desktop computer running Windows XP and they have recently not been showing up in my drive menu. USB drives work fine and the portable hard drives I have been using are functioning on my laptop, but my desktop computer will not display any icon in my menu.

Any help would be appreciated!
I forgot to add, the USB drives that work fine are the thumb drives, only larger hard drives are not functioning, but I am using the same USB ports for both.

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Yeah, Ive had this happen before. Your computer probably just didn't assign it a drive letter. Try this...

1. Connect external and turn it on just like you normally would.

2. Right click on "My Computer" and click "Manage".

3. In the left side under "Storage", select "Disk Management".
(Now it should be displaying a list of all your drives and there partitions.)

4. Look to see if you can find one that does not have a drive letter beside it. Tip: Look for the one with the capacity that matches your external.

5. Once you've found it right click on the drive and select "Change Drive Letters and Paths...".

6. Then click "add".

7. Then with "Assign the following drive letter" selected, chose the letter you want to assign to the drive. Now just close every thing by clicking OK.

Now it should be useable drive listed in My Computer.

Hopefully this helps.

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How can I partition my portable hard drive to save files both from my MAC and from an old PC?

portable hard drive to fat32 format image

mr blonde7

I just want to save a ton of files from my MAC to my portable hard drive and if possible, also save files from my PC. I was told the hard drive can be 'partitioned' but have no idea how. I'm fairly clueless regarding all things tech so please use keep it simple LOL.

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You have two options.

1) You can format the drive to FAT32 (MS-DOS in OSX) to make it both PC and Mac compatible. This will allow it to be used on both types of system without partitioning. This is the best option, except that this format won't allow file transfers of single files larger than 4GB in size.

2) You can follow the link below to learn how to use Disk Utility to partition your drive, created two partitions on the one drive, format one for Windows(NTFS) and one for OSX(Max OS Journaled). This will give you storage space for both Operating Systems, but you wouldn't be able to copy items between the systems. By default, OSX cannot read and write a NTFS drive, and Windows cannot read and write to a Mac OS Journaled drive.

http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart.htm

How to format a hard drive to work with Mac + PC?

Elliott

I have a Lacie Starck 500GB Portable Hard Drive. Unfortunately it is only compatible with Mac, but I do a lot of crossing over between Windows and OSX.
Can somebody please help me to format the device so it can be used on windows too?
This would be of great help!
Thanks.

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FAT32

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