Western Digital USB external drive 500Gb size with case

Technomate recommend the Western Digital 500Gb Caviar Blue range of discs

Western Digital 2.5 inch sata drive for internal mount

Technomate recommend the Western Digital 500Gb Caviar Blue range of discs

USB drives should be formatted in FAT32, if you have a modern laptop you may not have this option , so download this windows program and use it on the USB drive Guiformat

Note ExFAT format does NOT work , the receiver will not recognise the drive or will give speed too low warnings

The Technomate TM8000HD is capable of using an internal 2.5 inch HDD ( sata connections ) or an external USB drive. Because of the large file size of HD programmes, I would recommend a 500Gb drive minimum.

Internal ( sata cable ) External (USB cable)

The drive must be first partitioned with a FAT32 file system. An unformatted new drive will NOT work straight out of the box. (The new 7000 models will ). The easiest method is to simply use a PC. These instructions are for xp operating systems.

Copy this file to your C: drive FAT32

Connect the hard disc via sata or USB cable to your PC
Right click My Computer
Go to Manage
Go to Disk Management
Right click USB drive
Click on Delete Partition and follow the instructions
When finished, a new drive will appear. highlight the drive with the largest file size Right click on it. .
Go to Make New Partition (Primary). Assign a drive letter, for example, G:
Select: Do not Format this Partition and follow the instructions
Right click on the USB drive and set the partition as Active
run the fat32format.exe file from your C: Drive,
( Start > Run > enter CMD >Ok Enter: cd c:\
Enter: fat32format G: (Or whatever drive letter you used)

The following message will appear: Warning ALL data on drive 'f' will be lost irretrievably, are you sure (y/n) confirm with 'y'
Wait until it says Done, it is now ready to use. Just to be 100% sure, now format it connected to your receiver, from the USB menu. Check that the full size of the partition is shown in the stats.

INTERNAL SATA DRIVES

Technomate 8000HD software can be found on this site:

technomatesoftware.co.uk

Rear USB socket TM8000 model

TM8000 HD page