How hard is it to hook up a external hard drive to dish hopper? Just tried two and had no luck with either. After reading the dish external requirements and reading online this is what I have tried.
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I tried a WD my passport 2tb My Passport . The hopper detected it when I plugged it in and ask to format it. I went through the steps and it said it was successful. I then noticed it was listed when I went to DVR , but it showed the available space and spaced used as being 0. When all the other tvs was turned on, they also gave the format message, even though I already did that. I then unplugged it and plugged it back in. The hopper no longer detected it and tried to go through the format process again ,but eventually returned back to tv without formatting. I went through this like 20 times before giving up. I then plugged it into my computer and was gonna to try to reformat it for the computer and then try again ,but everything I tried gave error messages. I finally figured out the hopper corrupted the hard drive and it was useless. I returned this hard drive back and got a my book.
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I tried the WD my book 4tb My Book even though the limit is 2tb. Read a thread on here where someone was able to format it and then hook it up to a computer and delete space to get it to work. Plugged this one in the hopper and it won’t detect it to format ,so I shrink the volume down to 1.5 tb and the hopper still will not detect it. Gonna have to return this one too.
How hard it to find a hard drive and hook it up to the hopper? With the requirements it’s nearly impossible to find a hard drive that works. My guess is dish wants you to buy there hard drives.
1:
I tried a WD my passport 2tb My Passport . The hopper detected it when I plugged it in and ask to format it. I went through the steps and it said it was successful. I then noticed it was listed when I went to DVR , but it showed the available space and spaced used as being 0. When all the other tvs was turned on, they also gave the format message, even though I already did that. I then unplugged it and plugged it back in. The hopper no longer detected it and tried to go through the format process again ,but eventually returned back to tv without formatting. I went through this like 20 times before giving up. I then plugged it into my computer and was gonna to try to reformat it for the computer and then try again ,but everything I tried gave error messages. I finally figured out the hopper corrupted the hard drive and it was useless. I returned this hard drive back and got a my book.
2:
I tried the WD my book 4tb My Book even though the limit is 2tb. Read a thread on here where someone was able to format it and then hook it up to a computer and delete space to get it to work. Plugged this one in the hopper and it won’t detect it to format ,so I shrink the volume down to 1.5 tb and the hopper still will not detect it. Gonna have to return this one too.
How hard it to find a hard drive and hook it up to the hopper? With the requirements it’s nearly impossible to find a hard drive that works. My guess is dish wants you to buy there hard drives.
That bare drive needs a self-powered USB enclosure... If you turn on an EHD connected via USB, it should offer to format a brand new disk for the Hopper. Is your enclosure powered?
