[grasshopper]

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Western Digital has a Windows based utility that will reformat a Western Digital external USB or FireWire hard drive back to the factory default FAT32 partition. When run, this utility can only create a single FAT32 partition for the full capacity of the hard drive. Please follow the directions below to download and use the Western Digital FAT32 formatting utility.

1 - Download the ExtFat32.msi file to your desktop.
2 - Double-click on the file named ExtFat32.msi and follow the onscreen prompts to install this program onto the computer.



3 - Check the box labeled I accept this License Agreement and click Next.



4 - Select the hard drive that is to to formatted and click on Start, OK, and then Next. Important: All data on the target hard drive will be erased during this process. Please remove or backup any valuable data before performing this step.:

[freedomtwoa]

Did any one ever try SWISSkNIFE ?
it work well for formatting to fat 32 : )
It is free do a seach for it ..........good luck.
Work well for me.... it did format and when put in harddrive " USB port " back in my Coolsat ... all went well.
Now have to figure how to get then TS fils to MPEG ......love this testing.


HDTV2DVD
HDTV2DVD is a new freeware tool to simply convert your HDTV material to DVD. HDTV captures are MPEG-2 Transport Streams at either 1280 x 720p or 1920 x 1080i resolution yet DVD is typically MPEG-2 Program Streams at 720 x 480 (for NTSC). This means that to play HD material on a "normal" DVD player you have to convert the source. This is what HDTV2DVD does in a simple, user friendly way.
Load up your HDTV file (.ts or .tp), start the processing and HDTV2DVD will produce a VIDEO_TS DVD folder ready for you to burn!