ciaran_mac3
Member
Hi, apologies if this has been covered I just can't find an answer in the threads.
I have set up a few of these boxes for friends now but the problem I face is the EPG and recordings disappear once the box is powered down.i know your suppose to leave it in standby for the EPG etc but it's quite annoying not being able to power the box down (happens by accident sometimes). On my own box I didn't seek to have this problem as I'm not a big recorder and was only using a 16Gb sandisk which seemed to 'hold' it's EPG and recordings memory. When I set up the boxes for friends I used unbranded USB's which as soon as the box loses power they seem to 'unmount' themselves and need to be initialised again which in turn wipes the USB along with any data.
Many question is this, does this problem happen with branded USB memory sticks also? Is it better to use an external hard drive? If so should I go for a powered or on powered one, or does this matter? (I'm presuming it does matter)
thanks in in advance
I have set up a few of these boxes for friends now but the problem I face is the EPG and recordings disappear once the box is powered down.i know your suppose to leave it in standby for the EPG etc but it's quite annoying not being able to power the box down (happens by accident sometimes). On my own box I didn't seek to have this problem as I'm not a big recorder and was only using a 16Gb sandisk which seemed to 'hold' it's EPG and recordings memory. When I set up the boxes for friends I used unbranded USB's which as soon as the box loses power they seem to 'unmount' themselves and need to be initialised again which in turn wipes the USB along with any data.
Many question is this, does this problem happen with branded USB memory sticks also? Is it better to use an external hard drive? If so should I go for a powered or on powered one, or does this matter? (I'm presuming it does matter)
thanks in in advance