Cinema system won't read Hard drive

[merseygull]

I have a panasonic home cinema system connected to my Orion telly... the system is good, but I tried to connect a Toshiba external HD via the USB connection and it reports "cannot read this device" - I have re-formatted from NTSC to FAT and it still won't read it... any ideas?

ATB,J.

[kellys_eye]

What size HDD? Try a smaller size first to see if this works.

Attach it to your PC USB port too - for larger drives I find I have to use Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Storage - Disk management - then find the drive, right click on it and 're-activate disk'.....

[merseygull]

Hi, it's a 3 Gig drive, PC recognises it Ok....

There doesn't appear to be a problem with the port itself, since it will access a flash drive that I put in...

AND I've tried a powered USB hub, so it isn't that...



ATB,J.

[BillyGoat]

It's due to the size of the drive and the way it's handled when being formatted usually.

If you do as KE said and open in disk management, you'll more than likely find it's formatted as GPT (GUID) so the machien can use the full 3TB drive. You need it really to be of the MBR (older) format, which will limit your size to 2.2TB if memory serves correct.

I would:

- clear drive partitions
- create ONE 2TB partiton (of the MBR type when prompted)
- test in player

if it works

- Create a second 1TB partition with the leftover space
- test

if it see's both, you are gravy. If it don't, then you know your choices, which are:

- just use 2TB of the drive and leave the other bit unused
- use the drive somewhere else and buy a 2TB just for this

check for updates to yuor player too....MAY have a firmware update to address large disk support. Proberbly not.

BG

[mark21lancs]

Hi, it's a 3 Gig drive, PC recognises it Ok....

There doesn't appear to be a problem with the port itself, since it will access a flash drive that I put in...

AND I've tried a powered USB hub, so it isn't that...



ATB,J.

I am assuming you mean TB not GB, if so i cant imagine a tv reading a capacity that size. What model is your tv? i will look in to it for you.