Can't see EHD help

[bwexler]

I am getting two new Hopper with Sling today.
i want to move 600 GB of movies to an EHD.
i pluged in my EHD in front USB then in back and my Hopper 2K would not see it. Plugged in a full EHD and after an hour it appeared. So I plug in the EHD with room on it, wait overnight, and still no EHD. How can I convince the H2K to see the EHD so I can move my programs?

 

[KAB]

Try powering down both EHD and Hopper (pull plug). Turn Hopper back on, THEN, the EHD. Has the EHD been formatted?

 

[garys]

Is the EHD self powered?

 

[bwexler]

The EHD is self powered it has been formatted and has programming on it from the other Hopper. This is the first time I am connecting an EHD to THIS Hopper.
I am using an adapter device where you drop a bare drive into a slot in the device where it connects to the device. It is powered by a wall wart and connected by USB 2. It did show me a different hard drive but there was not enough space available on that drive to move anything to it.

 

[JSheridan]

I read in another thread that if you search for something specific that you know is on the missing hard drive it may appear.

 

[KAB]

The EHD is self powered it has been formatted and has programming on it from the other Hopper. This is the first time I am connecting an EHD to THIS Hopper.
I am using an adapter device where you drop a bare drive into a slot in the device where it connects to the device. It is powered by a wall wart and connected by USB 2. It did show me a different hard drive but there was not enough space available on that drive to move anything to it.

I have two of those bare drive docks, and it is easy to think you have seated it properly, but often it's not. You really have to jam them down, FWIW.