My Time Warner cable guy was here a few weeks ago and suggested I get an external hard drive to supplement the capacity of my 8300HDC Dvr box. He said that although Time Warner doesn't currently support it, the eSATA port was active and would work. He kindly told me the steps to follow setting it up. But like a dummy I didn't write anything down.
So off to Best Buy me goes and buys a Western Digital MyBook 500GB eSATA drive, and an eSATA cable. Tonight I attempted to get the thing working, first by having the hard drive hooked and fired up, then powering up the Cable Box. The cable box powered up fine, but didn't ask me if I wanted to format the drive and the total storage used indicator still showed the same result as before I installed it. Then I tried unplugging the hard drive, then plugging it back in. I got a message that read Bad Hard Drive, press A or C to continue. Problem was that message locked up the remote.
Can anyone spare this old man the idiot proof step by steps for this to work? Sorry to use valuable forum time on such a primitive issue.
~they call me ronbo~
So off to Best Buy me goes and buys a Western Digital MyBook 500GB eSATA drive, and an eSATA cable. Tonight I attempted to get the thing working, first by having the hard drive hooked and fired up, then powering up the Cable Box. The cable box powered up fine, but didn't ask me if I wanted to format the drive and the total storage used indicator still showed the same result as before I installed it. Then I tried unplugging the hard drive, then plugging it back in. I got a message that read Bad Hard Drive, press A or C to continue. Problem was that message locked up the remote.
Can anyone spare this old man the idiot proof step by steps for this to work? Sorry to use valuable forum time on such a primitive issue.
~they call me ronbo~
