Hey everyone.
So I have come across a slight problem that I am hoping might have a quick fix that is alluding me.
I have a HDD external'er (One of those devices that I can connect HDD to it making them external storage). I have a ton of junk on there; much more than I could just transfer around.
Both my upconverting DVD player and my Dish Network DVR have USB connections and I decided to try hooking them up with the HDD to try to play things through my sexy HDTV.
First I tried the DVR. It recognized it and told me that I need to reformat the Drive and lose all the data. I don't really understand why or how the HDD can be formated for every computer I own but not the DVR. But, Whatever, the DVR has a ton of storage already I can survive with out that. I can just get another HDD whenever I find one cheap and just format that guy to the DVR.
So then I try hooking it up to my Philips DVD player. I go through the menu and all it tells me is that the "Card" is empty. That is all I get out of it.
So now I am completely at a loss. What can I do to get one of the two to work for me? Like I said, I can't really take off all the junk and start fresh.
Before I completely start monkeying around with everything and trying a bunch of my completely off the top of the head guesses on what to do I thought I might ask the AT collective knowledge. I started to google around but I figured you guys might be able to help me out a little quicker.
Thanks everyone.
So I have come across a slight problem that I am hoping might have a quick fix that is alluding me.
I have a HDD external'er (One of those devices that I can connect HDD to it making them external storage). I have a ton of junk on there; much more than I could just transfer around.
Both my upconverting DVD player and my Dish Network DVR have USB connections and I decided to try hooking them up with the HDD to try to play things through my sexy HDTV.
First I tried the DVR. It recognized it and told me that I need to reformat the Drive and lose all the data. I don't really understand why or how the HDD can be formated for every computer I own but not the DVR. But, Whatever, the DVR has a ton of storage already I can survive with out that. I can just get another HDD whenever I find one cheap and just format that guy to the DVR.
So then I try hooking it up to my Philips DVD player. I go through the menu and all it tells me is that the "Card" is empty. That is all I get out of it.
So now I am completely at a loss. What can I do to get one of the two to work for me? Like I said, I can't really take off all the junk and start fresh.
Before I completely start monkeying around with everything and trying a bunch of my completely off the top of the head guesses on what to do I thought I might ask the AT collective knowledge. I started to google around but I figured you guys might be able to help me out a little quicker.
Thanks everyone.