Dose it matter what size you flashdrive is

[badboy12]

I have a v.s pro and i can't get my usb stick to work my external harddive works fine but my flashdrive don't i can not get it to read my unzipped files its like its not even detecting it i have a memorex 64meg drive2.0 usb stick

[jc7257]

Originally Posted by badboy12

I have a v.s pro and i can't get my usb stick to work my external harddive works fine but my flashdrive don't i can not get it to read my unzipped files its like its not even detecting it i have a memorex 64meg drive2.0 usb stick

Have you formatted it to Fat 32 on your PC???

[badboy12]

yes i do its mind bogleing

[jc7257]

Originally Posted by badboy12

yes i do its mind bogleing

Try another flash stick and see if you have same trouble. Could be the stick...

[edwinsao]

Originally Posted by badboy12

I have a v.s pro and i can't get my usb stick to work my external harddive works fine but my flashdrive don't i can not get it to read my unzipped files its like its not even detecting it i have a memorex 64meg drive2.0 usb stick

some stick has a little switch to turn on and off did you check that??

[badboy12]

yes i looked for a switch my pc sees it fine it just the box that dose not thats whats so confuisoning i tryed the front and back usb ports and either one sees the stick i was thinking maybe i size on the flash drive or it just don't reconize memorex drives

[63ranchero]

I ran into this once on my cs7000 and when I shut off the power and disconected the lnb, then tried it, it worked, crazy solution but it did work. Maybe?

[basscat02]

That does work most of the time. Try that or a hard reboot and try your stick again

[oompaloompa7]

Yeah i ran into the same problem too... i figured it was because the usb stick was too small... i used a bigger one and it worked fine... i guess the cheaper ones cant be detected.... they probably need specific specifications that it doesnt meet....

[younggun1904]

yeah you have to use a gig or bigger or the STB won't see it. For any pvr type it has to be at least a gig. From what I was told the STB is manufactured to only see a gig or higher. If you stop and think about it what
good would it do for you to use a 32mb drive to rec tv, I'm sure that was what they were thinking when they they made it.

[basscat02]

I use a 512 Lexar which I have used from the beginning and it works great

[lamb88l]

If you had used the flash drive in your box, there is a safe remove tab in your menu. Sometimes if the stick is not safely removed it can go bad.Also if you do not safely remove it from your computer, you can screw the drive up. Otherwise before inserting the usb drive, turn the box on.Insert the usb drive and it should be recognised.Then press ok.Go to System information then Software Update List, press ok and you should see the list of Bin file on the stick. Choose the current file and let the box reboot. If this does not work, do a factory default and try again.

[badboy12]

Think i will go buy me a bigger drive target has a 1gig sony brand for 19.99
i have done so many factory defaults to get this thing to work its easyer to buy a new one, i think this cheap memorex is crap lol

Thanks guys.

[63ranchero]

Originally Posted by badboy12

Think i will go buy me a bigger drive target has a 1gig sony brand for 19.99
i have done so many factory defaults to get this thing to work its easyer to buy a new one, i think this cheap memorex is crap lol

Thanks guys.

If your drive was not big enough it wouldn't let let you load the files to begin with. I seriously doubt that it's the size of your USB drive. What happened to the one that came with it and did you remember to format the drive to fat 32?

[badboy12]

a usb drive did not come with the unit and yes it is formated to fat32