Recycling old sky hdd

[Ford1]

As the title suggests, I am trying to use a freshly formatted hdd from a old sky box. The drive was formatted on Windows pc and was accessible. However the mount manager in vix shows size:unavailable mount:none device: /dev/sda1 type:unavailable

Any help?

[abu baniaz]

Have you tried to mount it?

[Ford1]

Yeah, then I re read and had forgot to initialize! Slow learner trying to hard, just formatting a 4gb usb pen to use with epg. Then got to change skin to blue-hd so it's more like sky for the kids to use. I'm getting there, just need to slow down and a brew first.

[Andy_Hazza]

As the title suggests, I am trying to use a freshly formatted hdd from a old sky box. The drive was formatted on Windows pc and was accessible. However the mount manager in vix shows size:unavailable mount:none device: /dev/sda1 type:unavailable

Any help?

You need to initialise first, which is linux formatting and will format to ext4 which is what you need to do.


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[abu baniaz]

My apologies, I was unaware we can nl longer mount fat32 devices.

[twol]

Yeah, then I re read and had forgot to initialize! Slow learner trying to hard, just formatting a 4gb usb pen to use with epg. Then got to change skin to blue-hd so it's more like sky for the kids to use. I'm getting there, just need to slow down and a brew first.

Sounds like you are getting there. With my memory I always find it useful ( especially for linux systems) to either print out and file any online advice or write down what I have done ... Probably because this will not be the last time you do this type of setup.