How to add and use a USB hard drive/disk/thmb drive as the hard drive for a Vu+ Solo

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    How to guide: Adding a hard drive to a Vu+ Solo receiver.
    Written by DrF on February 26th, 2011


    How to add and use a USB hard drive/disk/thmb drive as the hard drive for a Vu+ Solo satellite receiver, useful for recording programs, time delay & time shifted programming.





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    VU+ SOLO – USB HDD INSTALLATION

    Guide using Power Of Dream Image 4-9-2010



    Check a USB hard disk is recognised.

    Press MENU on your remote control.

    Select SETUP


    Select SYSTEM



    Select HARD DISK



    Select FILE SYSTEM CHECK




    Now go back by pressing EXIT once

    Select INITIALISATION

    If the disk is not ready for use with the system the menu will allow you to press the RED button.

    Press the RED button to format it as an ext3 linux drive, this may take some time!
    It may reboot the box on completion or it may restart the GUI.
    If it restarts the GUI it may fail rendering the video correctly, you may need to restart the box manually.

    The hard disk is now ready to use.

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