I have several 500gb EHD formatted for my HWS. I need one for my PC with Windows 10. The pc does not recognize the EHD. How do I get the pc with Windows 10 to recognize the drive and format it from android to Windows.
Formatting an EHD back to Windows
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Not sure how it's structured in Win 10, but in Win 7 you go to the CONTROL PANEL, select ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS, then COMPUTER MANAGEMENT, under" storage" select DISK MANAGEMENT. The drive will show up here and you can then "Initialize" the disk and it will be seen in windows.
FYI, Android is an operating system and not a disk filesystem type. The Hopper disk format is an ext3 type.
CONTROL PANEL / ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS / COMPUTER MANAGEMENT, DISK MANAGEMENT. The drive should show some kind of partition that is not recognized. Delete that partition, create a new one, then you can format it.
It's the way the data is stored on a disk or storage device. Example: Windows is an operating system (like Android, Linux, iOS, etc...). The hard drive that stores the data the operating system uses has a 'file system' type which the hard drive is formatted for. "A file system is the underlying structure a computer uses to organize data on a hard disk."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems
So, in Dish's case their current operating system (from what I understand) is NOT Android, but maybe some flavor of Linux? Or custom?? And the file system they chose to use for the hard drive storage (internal or external) is the ext3 format. Something designed for Linux years ago and is NOT a file system type used by Windows, hence the incompatibility when connecting the drive to a Windows PC (Windows uses file systems like NTFS, FAT32, ...). Like going to a restaurant and the menu is in Mandarin Chinese where you can't read Mandarin. Still a menu and valid information on it but only for those that understand it.
Not trying to split hairs, but in case anyone else reads the post I didn't want them to think the Hopper was an Android OS when you referenced it. Hope this helps.
Yeah, my mistake. I know Dish is not android. Just a slip of the tongue. Not that I understand everything else that you said. But thank guys. I got it formatted now.
The Hopper just ask, if you want to format a Windows drive to use with the Hopper. You would think that Windows would recognize the Dish drive and ask the format question.
The Hopper just ask, if you want to format a Windows drive to use with the Hopper. You would think that Windows would recognize the Dish drive and ask the format question.
Too bad we can't make this thread a sticky - I asked the same question when I made the switch to the original Hopper a couple of years ago.
I had backed up all my programs from our old VIP system to my backup EHD and transferred them to the new Hopper but thought I had "bricked" our EHD. I posted the question here and was saved by the good people on this forum.
Now we have Windows 10 and a different way to do things - really good to know.
I had backed up all my programs from our old VIP system to my backup EHD and transferred them to the new Hopper but thought I had "bricked" our EHD. I posted the question here and was saved by the good people on this forum.
Now we have Windows 10 and a different way to do things - really good to know.
This is a very dangerous proposition. Apple did this for a long time on the Macintosh with discs that it didn't recognize and it became a serious problem when most 3.5" discs were NOT Mac format.
When it comes to alternate filesystems, Windows is arguably the most ignorant.
Older versions of Windows wouldn't even give you the option to modify or delete the partitions for filesystems that it didn't understand.
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