I no longer use my satellite box and would like to reuse the two SSD's I have on my PC.
It it Possible to wipe or format the SSD's so windows will accept them.
I no longer use my satellite box and would like to reuse the two SSD's I have on my PC.
It it Possible to wipe or format the SSD's so windows will accept them.
Vu+ UNO 4K SE - LAN
Tiviar Alpha+ Plus - LAN
3 PC's (two Win 7, one Dual Boot XP/Win 7 All with Hot Swap HDD Bays & LAN connected
Netgear NAS 2 x 2TB Drive on same LAN
Zone 2 Sky Dish (not connected) Triax 1m Dish - OCTO LNB
Have the SSDs been internal or external to your box? Have they been formatted to ext4?
Is you PC running windows?
Assuming a PC running windows, and possibly a SSD foramatted as ext4 ......
Put the SSD in a USB caddy (unless it is already connected via USB) and plug it into a usb port on your PC
First check that Windows File Explorer can see it. If it can then just reformat it. If it can't ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlE60EYDZjA
Then use method 1 in this youtube video
In the video the instruction "format fs=fat32" can be changed to "format fs=fat32 fast" or or "format fs=ntfs fast" which saves a lot of time (possibly very many hours) for formatting
Random example caddy @ around £4 from Ebay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266419459958
Xtrend ET10K, 2 x satellite tuners 28.2 (Sky FTA), 2 x hybrid (UK Freeview), Zgemma H9S (satellite)
abu baniaz (22-10-23),Hebridean (22-10-23)
Thank you, for your most helpful post.
Vu+ UNO 4K SE - LAN
Tiviar Alpha+ Plus - LAN
3 PC's (two Win 7, one Dual Boot XP/Win 7 All with Hot Swap HDD Bays & LAN connected
Netgear NAS 2 x 2TB Drive on same LAN
Zone 2 Sky Dish (not connected) Triax 1m Dish - OCTO LNB