external hard drive

[sparky20]

Have a wd 1tb hard drive formatted to fat32, seem to have a issue getting it to work on my dreamlink as i get a message the says initialiing usb drive and then it will say recovering usb drive and then it will say invalid usb drive not sure what is wrong

[Terryl]

You might need an externally DC powered one, I think the USB port is only rated to around 500 mA, look at the spec's on the drive to see what it's DC current requirements are.

[dukeathome]

How did you format the hd? I bought a 1tb seagate with external power supply and tried to format it with windows and still didnt work, I ended up using a program (forget which one) and worked after that.

[Terryl]

It might need to be formatted in Linux ETX2, my best guess.

All fails check the users manual.

[robz2801]

Try a program called "guiformat", it specifically formats FAT32 .It's what I use and haven't had an issue, it's also free.

[sparky20]

I used swiss knife to format the hard drive and it has external power supply

[sparky20]

Used qui format and got it to work for me thanks for the help, hopefully it will keep working