Picked up a 2TB external hard drive to store films recorded from a freeview recorder but have discovered that said hard drive is NTFS, the freeview recorder will read from the NTFS but i can't copy to it....d'oh! what's the best fix on this?....would i need to convert it to FAT?....erm and if so what's the best way?
Current work round:
copy to a FAT external hard drive
copy to computer
copy from computer to 2TB NTFS
All rather long winded with a full FAT external hard drive....
.....why does full FAT make me think of dairy products...
fat32 blimey that's a bit
fat32 blimey that's a bit old and backward guess they couldn't afford a licence for ntfs
It might be the simplest solution is to reformat the external drive but part of the reason fat32 was replaced with NTFS was that it has limitations that make it's use less than ideal. Most operating systems will only allow fat32 partitions up to 32gb some might let you use the full 2tb but you may have troubles getting other devices like your freeview box to access that.
Assuming you don't mind experimenting by removing everything from your external drive then you might as well try reformatting see if it will hang together but even if it works you might run into problems where it the new format won't be readable on some setups.
I don't recommend converting
I don't recommend converting your NAS to fat32. Perhaps record to your PC, and use the NAS for backup and bulk storage.
Although, that doesn't really fix the problem :)
Read only NTFS sounds like
Read only NTFS sounds like an older version of Linux potentially. May well be worth having a look on the manufacturer's site to see if there's a firmware upgrade available that fully supports NTFS. The Freeview box is the one being unreasonable here, as EMW and MisterE say FAT32 on a drive this big is not recommended :)
Thanks for your thoughts, I
Thanks for your thoughts, I won't format to FAT, will have a check into firmware upgrades though and keep on with the long approach in the meantime.