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niallo32
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_ 		17. August 2013 @ 13:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a new Dreambox 800HD and have a 150Gb internal HDD connected.

Same drive was used in my previous Dreambox and it worked fine.

Under Device Manager in Devicelist I can see the drive listed and it's size.

I also have a 32Gb USB drive listed.

In Devicelist, when I select the 150Gb drive and select 'initialise' I choose any partition option and any of the file formats (NTFS, FAT32 etc) and straight away I get the error 'Partitioning failed'

No matter what I try it won't mount the drive.

I've read previous threads on this but no luck.

Can anyone assist?

Thanks
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tongs007
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_ 		18. August 2013 @ 06:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by niallo32:
 I have a new Dreambox 800HD and have a 150Gb internal HDD connected.

Same drive was used in my previous Dreambox and it worked fine.

Under Device Manager in Devicelist I can see the drive listed and it's size.

I also have a 32Gb USB drive listed.

In Devicelist, when I select the 150Gb drive and select 'initialise' I choose any partition option and any of the file formats (NTFS, FAT32 etc) and straight away I get the error 'Partitioning failed'

No matter what I try it won't mount the drive.

I've read previous threads on this but no luck.

Can anyone assist?

Thanks
I had the same issue and it was a right carry on, Can't remember how i solved the problem though unfortunately
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tongs007
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_ 		18. August 2013 @ 06:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
have you tried formatting the drive with your pc to ext3? paragon partition manager will do this for you, format in pc put it back in dreambox and see if it will mount
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niallo32
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_ 		18. August 2013 @ 08:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by tongs007:
 have you tried formatting the drive with your pc to ext3? paragon partition manager will do this for you, format in pc put it back in dreambox and see if it will mount
Tried that thanks - same error
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fintannl
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_ 		18. August 2013 @ 11:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
problem is not the disk, problem is the image. images such dream elite have issues recognizing certain brands of hard drive. suggest you switch image to dreamboxuk v1.1 (do not use version 2 as it does not support clones very well).
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Thinone
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_ 		20. August 2013 @ 16:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i also found it was image dependent -i use D-M-S-image-dm800-OE1-6-v6-0-ramiMAHER and this image initialise and works with hdd no problems
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fintannl
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_ 		20. August 2013 @ 18:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
and i can debate that also. have used many of the ramimaher images with no success with some hard disks. its very hit and miss but as Thinone suggests (as do I) it is image related. so its lots of head wrecking for a while
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niallo32
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_ 		21. August 2013 @ 03:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Thinone:
 i also found it was image dependent -i use D-M-S-image-dm800-OE1-6-v6-0-ramiMAHER and this image initialise and works with hdd no problems
Thanks all - I'll try a new image so
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Mooley
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_ 		21. August 2013 @ 04:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Had exactly the same problem myself. After trying a few ramimaher images also with no luck recognising internal HDD Merlin 3 worked a treat for me.
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