> From: Gurney
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> Guest Charles, I did indeed quote incorrectly from the destruction manual: It should have been a 500Gb HDD.

Guessed as much - it's easy enough to do.

I'm more concerned that your TV's manual claims that it only recognises FAT32. If that really is true, that's a serious limitation. It means that that any long program will need to be split into files 4GB or less in length, and if it's designed to work with FAT32, the TV should be doing that automatically, but, judging from your initial description of its behaviour, it seems that it isn't. Rather, it's choking when it hits the file size barrier, so what is probably happening is an attempt to write fails because of the file size limit, so the TV thinks the disk is full, until some indefinite time later some other process causes it to reget details of the disk usage, whereupon it finds that it isn't full, and then perhaps it tries to restart the recording, very possibly using the same file name, which will either overwrite what has already been recorded earlier, or else try again to append to it, which again will cause another error, and so on.

Take a look on the manufacturer's site, and see if anyone else is reporting a similar problem, and/or report it yourself. See what the manufacturer says about it. It may that there is already a firmware update you could apply that fixes the problem.

Failing that, despite what the manual says, try what I suggested earlier, using NTFS first, and Ext3 second, to see if you can get it to work with either of those.