Comments on Toolman in the Toyshop of the World: YESS DVB-T9900HD

Your WD300gb drive is fine, but it needs to be for...

2010-07-06T14:25:16.189+12:00

Your WD300gb drive is fine, but it needs to be formatted in fat32. Your drive is probably NTFS the more modern format. If you're not a computer expert, use the formatting option in the PVR. I have a 1TB WD originally partitioned to 500GB for use on the PVR, but found it was too big for the system, so reduced it to 300GB.
Before you plug in the harddrive you need to turn off the freeview box with switch on the back, plug in the USB then turn it back on again. You hard drive will then be recognised. I suggest not leaving the hard drive plugged in when you're not using it, since it is never in a resting state and constant vibrates.

Yes mine is also very picky on which USB devices i...

2010-04-23T11:15:03.186+12:00

Yes mine is also very picky on which USB devices it likes. I have tried lots of USB flash keys, and only a few worked, and many USB HDDs that didn't work.

Unfortunately I haven't got any suggestions other then "try another drive".

Its a pity they are so picky :(

hi i have the same freeview decoder but can't ...

2010-04-23T10:53:22.275+12:00

hi i have the same freeview decoder but can't seem to get my external hard drive to connect to it, it just keeps telling me "not ready".
tried formatting option still no good also tried formatting on pc first still no joy,
any help would be much appreciated my external is a WD300gb.
regards brett