Hey guys
my 250Gb HDD is full,that's the main HDD on my pc for years,and now it's full
so I downloaded windows 8,and installed it on my other HDD,it's 500GB just to try it
I would like to know if I can install the two HDD's so that I don't have to replace the HDD's everytime I want to use the windows 8?
And btw I don't use the 500Gb HDD because I think that it have bad sectors,how can I really confirm (or fix this)?
omar_killer said:
Hey guys
my 250Gb HDD is full,that's the main HDD on my pc for years,and now it's full
so I downloaded windows 8,and installed it on my other HDD,it's 500GB just to try it
I would like to know if I can install the two HDD's so that I don't have to replace the HDD's everytime I want to use the windows 8?
And btw I don't use the 500Gb HDD because I think that it have bad sectors,how can I really confirm (or fix this)?
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If it has bad sectors, throw it away.
You can put two, three, or even 10 harddrives in one machine, if it has the capacity. Turning off ide/sata/scsi channels in the bios is a faily easy way to decide which os to boot.
Bootloaders are not something I recommend to folks without prior harddrive swapping experience.
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Hi People!
Is it Yes or Not possible to hook up a USB hardisk to the HTC Universal (providing the hard disk is powered externaly) to exchange file between the Universla and the Hardisk?
No
I'm sure some day there'll be a way, but dont hold your breath...
So does it have USB host? I thought the previous conclusion was that it didn't come enabled after all?
Why do you want to hook up a drive anyhow? What's wrong with a UNC connection over WiFi?
Why not use a 4GB SD card?
Hi
i use my Toshiba e800 as storage transfer solution of my pictures.
I connect an 80GB usb hardrive to the toshiba and insert my 2gb lexar memories on the CF slot for backup photos on hollidays ....
The issue is ? thoes the universal have usb host function ????
fcaeiro said:
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The issue is ? thoes the universal have usb host function ????
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No they don't.
We all hope it's just a matter of OS/Drivers and maybe a day in the future an update will give Universal usb host capability.
Roberto
Forget it. Only the CPU supports the USB Host feature. HTC chose not to include the neccessary remaining hardware on the device's mainboard, hence something a driver can never cure.
What about an SDIO USB host? Possible? Do they exist already?
Buy a laptop if you need that much space. This isn't a PC, it is a phone with PDA functionality. Show me any other PDA you can do this to? You can't.
saldous said:
Buy a laptop if you need that much space. This isn't a PC, it is a phone with PDA functionality. Show me any other PDA you can do this to? You can't.
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Toshiba 740
Toshiba E800
Toshiba E830
Asus (several models)
Siemens Pocket loox
And several other i don't know by head....
for me it will be the nicest thing in order to use the digicam as a usb drive in order to copy/send pictures
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What about an SDIO USB host? Possible? Do they exist already?
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That's what I was alluding to earlier, shouldn't be too long before they're available, I read about them on some website a couple of months ago but I can't find the flippin' link now.
Can't honestly say I'd use that much memory though, 2Gb is enough for me for the forseeable future.
when comparing mb / £ a HDD is the only real solution so far,
especially if you want vga res videos running. SD cards are good but only having 1-4 movies on a 2gb card becomes a pain.
i use a 2.5" hdd in a caddy hardly bigger than the drive, its only a 10gb drive atm as it is all that was avaliable "freely" :wink: , but it is WAY WAY WAY handier than a handful of SD's to ship data around
hdd usb conectivity would only be an interim step in the right direction, when 40gb+ SD type cards are mainstream and can be housed in the universal without ever needing to swap to your "videos" sd or your "music" sd or your "data" sd, then we are approaching the ideal situation.
but we wont get there until the basics are met first.
Has anyone been able to use a external DVD burner with the A500 yet?
I would love to be able to burn CDs and DVDs with my Iconia.
I have tried a Samsung SE-208 usb DVD writer and it will not read either film or Data disks, tried reading with Astro and file manager HD with no luck, spins up and and led flashes but shows directory empty, only tried out of interest only but seems pointless for burning possibly due to slow transfer, my only use perhaps reading DVD films or photos so will not pursue any further due to my 500gb usb hdd fulfills all my needs.
Possibly driver issues... Sorry, meant very likely....
The A500/501 isn't geared up to read or write using an external burner, it has not been successful to write to a HDD so why would you expect it to write dvds on an external burner....
Its almost certain to be a driver problem, but I dont know where you get the idea that the A500 will not write to a HDD, Because it certainly does i have just double checked and copied a file from my fitted sd card to my WD 320gb usb hard disk using File Manager HD
can't write on HDD ? hu, I plug my HDD on usb and I can... it's like just a big flash drive.
now...
DVD are not HDD... we can't just plug them and use them as we can we an HDD...
that require driver and probably a software to can burn the CD... since we need to use Joliet or Iso....
(and why using a tablet for burn a DVD ?)
Surprisingly -- no, it's not a (hardware) driver issue, as most CD/DVD drives use USB Mass Storage mode (the same as USB HDDs and flashdrives). The problem is that the Android Kernel doesn't support iso filesystems (even the google version doesn't, AFAIK). If you want to be sure, do a "cat /proc/filesystems" from the Terminal (without the quotes).
EDIT: I found a FUSE plugin named fuseiso... I wonder if it'll work?!
Not being a expert in this field, i can see your reasoning somewhat that in my in my case the A500 appears to read the disk but not read the files but however in the case of commercial movie DVDs Most (and new) DVD players read the UDF filesystem from a DVD-Video disc and ignore the ISO9660 filesystem.
I must admit their are probably more restrictions for protection etc that need to be overcome. Incidently like the earlier post I cannot see any purpose whatsover for burning CDs or DVDs from a tablet and the only use i can foresee is perhaps playing a commercial movie on DVD.
I've had my Toshiba Satellite C660-15R since 2010 and I'm not sure if it's time to replace the 320GB Hitachi 10080PBN200CSHPN HDD that was Installed by Toshiba, as Ubuntu Linux says the HDD has 1 Bad Sector back when I was using Ubuntu, but using Segate Sea Tools for Windows its passed all tests.
I'm unsure if it would be wise to replace the HDD based on its age, or stick with it due to the test results from Sea Tools for Windows?
Roland
Id say keep it, 1 bad sector equates to a negligible amount of data (handful of Mb) and isn't necessarily an indicator that the disk is dying, it could have just been scratched if the laptop moved during a write operation ir anything.
It may fail soon, it may not, I have an 80gb drive as a secondary in my desktop which is date stamped as 2003, my old laptops first hard drive lasted just 2 years.
Only reason I would swap the laptop in that machine if the disk is still working is as an upgrade to a bigger size or an SSD or something and that may not even be required
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Id say keep it, 1 bad sector equates to a negligible amount of data (handful of Mb) and isn't necessarily an indicator that the disk is dying, it could have just been scratched if the laptop moved during a write operation ir anything.
It may fail soon, it may not, I have an 80gb drive as a secondary in my desktop which is date stamped as 2003, my old laptops first hard drive lasted just 2 years.
Only reason I would swap the laptop in that machine if the disk is still working is as an upgrade to a bigger size or an SSD or something and that may not even be required
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Ok thanks.
I've swapped it out for a 1TB HDD, since I've been upgrading the Wifi Card and adding a new battery when it arrives, going to use the old drive in a USB caddy attached to the Router as a backup drive.land
It's also given me a reason to have a fresh start and sort out what needs to be on my HDD and what can go on the Network drive.
Ro
I am reading up about optimizing of SSD drives and I'm seeing that Windows 8 is supposed to be pretty good with automatically deciding whether to optimize or defragment drives based on what they are (SSD vs HDD). But I have a problem. I just bought an SSD but under the Optimization menu it is showing up as a Hard Drive.
It's a brand new Samsung 840 EVO 500GB and I'm going to be using it solely for music and movies as an external drive. I also bought an Anker external SATA III to USB 3.0 enclosure. I have the drive recognized and everything under the File Explorer but I'm just a little nervous that it's listed as a Hard Drive under the Optimization menu. How can I get Windows to see that it's in fact an SSD?
Hmm. Leaving aside the fact that "solely for music and movies" is an absurdly pointless waste of an SSD (those are large, contiguous, non-latency-sensitive, moderate-to-low bandwidth files; in other words they are everything that a traditional magnetic disk is good at and an SSD is not) I would guess that the issue lies in the SATA3-USB3 conversion. If there's any drivers available for that enclosure specifically, you could try installing them (though they really ought to have installed automatically). Beyond that... does Windows even schedule automatic "optimization" of removable drives (presumably it *does* see your drive as removable)?
If I were looking for a portable media drive, I'd frankly just return that one and use the money to buy a traditional 2.5" HDD with 2-4x the storage capacity. There's literally not a single reason I can think of to use an SSD there unless you plan on dropping the drive a lot while it's in use (modern laptop drives will lock their heads if they sense a sudden drop, so even there the SSD has only a small advantage). Magnetic storage will give you much better capacity and probably last longer, too.
I got the SSD on a really good sale and I'm definitely not returning it, the price I paid for it was absolutely bonkers and I'd be foolish to return it. I figured I'd buy it because I never know when I'm going to see it for the cheap again. I got it for 150 bucks CAD. So when I get a bigger drive in the future I will have an SSD
The software that came with the SSD for some reason won't install and the Samsung software won't recognize the SSD. Windows saw it right away as a portable media drive and I went into disk management, created an MBR volume and formatted it under NTFS. This was the only solution because many other users of this SSD have had the same problems as me - it straight up won't be recognized by the software, presumably probably because of the USB 3 connection. That's ok though because the software is optional. This was suggested as a solution and it works perfectly, now I'm just worried about the drive being falsely defragmented by Windows.
Ah. Well, you could try installing the software using Compatibility Mode (maybe try Win7 first?) but it sounds like, whether or not the drive is in fact a great deal, it has lousy firmware. Unless you can flash an update to it that fixes the problem, your best bet would simply be to try making sure Windows never attempts to "optimize" the drive.
Of course, unless you remove or edit the files on there, there won't be any fragmentation anyhow. So attempting defrag probably wouldn't do anything in any case. Similarly, if you aren't deleting files then you don't need to TRIM their data, so the usual optimizations for SSDs don't matter much either. You might want to see if you can disable access-time updating for the drive though, as that's very wasteful on an SSD (you can globally disable access timestamps using fsutil, but I don't know if you can do so for a single drive on Windows).
After trying a whole bunch of methods, here is the best way I've found to free up internal storage by moving apps to an external drive.
Complete step-by-step Guide with screenshots
tl;dr version:
1. Mount the drive with StickMount
2. Move the files and "trick" the Fire TV with FolderMount
does this work with XBMC?
those thumbnails are filling up the internal memory really fast
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jadflat said:
does this work with XBMC?
those thumbnails are filling up the internal memory really fast
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Yes, you can move XBMC's data with this method. But since XBMC is so customizable, modifying advancedsettings.xml like JJ-KwiK suggests is a better option.
awesome, thank you!
Sweet! Thanks for the guide.
So this guide will let you run apps from an external?? Sweet i need to buy a new one lol.. Thanks
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fireTVnews.com said:
Yes, you can move XBMC's data with this method. But since XBMC is so customizable, modifying advancedsettings.xml like JJ-KwiK suggests is a better option.
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xbmc run well from external drive
Hi Guys
Just need some input w.r.t. flash drives and external drives.
What is the biggest size flash drive or external drive we can use on the AFTV?
Fat32 or NTFS file system?
Do you need a powered multi usb device to make the external drive work?
Must you use a powered external drive to make it work in the fire tv?
Hope someone can clear it up.
I connected a non powered multi usb device on the fire tv. the Rii keyboard with bluetooth usb and my 4gb flash both worked on it, but my 1.5TB 2.5" does not want to pick it up.
Stevie G said:
Hi Guys
Just need some input w.r.t. flash drives and external drives.
What is the biggest size flash drive or external drive we can use on the AFTV?
Fat32 or NTFS file system?
Do you need a powered multi usb device to make the external drive work?
Must you use a powered external drive to make it work in the fire tv?
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I'm using a 32GB USB Flash Drive and it works. It's NTFS. Spinning disk must be powered externally for both 2.5" or 3.5".
External SSD might work unpowered....I don't have a drive to test this theory.
roligov said:
I'm using a 32GB USB Flash Drive and it works. It's NTFS. Spinning disk must be powered externally for both 2.5" or 3.5".
External SSD might work unpowered....I don't have a drive to test this theory.
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I have two Toshiba 5400 RPM Canvio that are unpowered 2.5 and work fine, and a Seagate 500MB 2.5 in a cheapie external USB case that works fine as well.
Yeah I don't understand I've just found my Verbatim USB 3 external 2.5" works but my transcend external 2.5" doesn't. Both are the same size and both are NTFS. I checked and they both work on my PC. Guess it's luck of the draw for 2.5". I can't get an external 3.5" to work...Anyone else?
roligov said:
Yeah I don't understand I've just found my Verbatim USB 3 external 2.5" works but my transcend external 2.5" doesn't. Both are the same size and both are NTFS. I checked and they both work on my PC. Guess it's luck of the draw for 2.5". I can't get an external 3.5" to work...Anyone else?
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3.5 inch should be 12V so they would need an external power supply. As far as not seeing a powered 3.5 it could be one of a hundred different issues.
roligov said:
Yeah I don't understand I've just found my Verbatim USB 3 external 2.5" works but my transcend external 2.5" doesn't. Both are the same size and both are NTFS. I checked and they both work on my PC. Guess it's luck of the draw for 2.5". I can't get an external 3.5" to work...Anyone else?
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My 2TB 3.5" external works with a 12v power.
External Harddrive 3TB, 3.5" formatted as NTFS works fine for me.
Different sorts of USB stick's up to 32MB formatted as fat32 or NTFS gave me no trouble either.
Images gone after moving Thumbernails to USB stick
Hello,
I 'moved' the Thumbernails folder, using the advancedsettings.xml method. After a new scan run I see all the movie-descriptions, but I do no longer, see any images. They are just not shown..
Any idea, whats going wrong ? I'm really new to XBMC
edit:
After the scan, I deleted the whole content in Andtroid/.../userdata/Thumbernails. The folder itself is still there.
(6GB usb stick/NTFS)
edit2: solution found!
xbmc: System->File Manager->Profile directory->Database delete the Textures13.db and restart the xbmc.
All thumbnails are displayed again!
I tried this method with NFSMW which is approx 4gb after updating and it copied everything over the my usb BUT when i mount it the game says my usb storage device has no room for an update -_- (even though the directory copied is the most up to date version and capacity is 16gb) also, this method does nothing to free up space on the FTV. I had to go in manually to my android/data folder and remove the directory to free up space myself. Might want to add that to the description.
alwaysbless said:
...also, this method does nothing to free up space on the FTV. I had to go in manually to my android/data folder and remove the directory to free up space myself. Might want to add that to the description.
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You are mistaken or did something wrong. FolderMount moves the files AND deletes the originals. If the files are set as "mounted" in FolderMount, it will appear as if they are still on the Fire TV. Meaning, if you "ls" the original directory in /sdcard/, you will see all the original files. However, the files are not actually on the Fire TV. To verify this for yourself, go to Settings > About to see your available free space before and after following my directions. You will see your free space increase.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709637
this url states that USB harddrive is not possible.
then how are you guys making it possible ?
must the fire tv be rooted ? before this feature is possible.
i think this is an important topic. as the device is now rooted, alot users would download apps, and they would need the space.
I would like to use USB harddrive with my XBMC.
please advice.
Thanks a lot.
nero16 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709637
this url states that USB harddrive is not possible.
then how are you guys making it possible ?
must the fire tv be rooted ? before this feature is possible.
i think this is an important topic. as the device is now rooted, alot users would download apps, and they would need the space.
I would like to use USB harddrive with my XBMC.
please advice.
Thanks a lot.
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That link was before we had root.
With root and StickMount both USB drives and Thumbdrives work great