RE: Recorder Storage Locaction Change Won't Stay (Vista Home Premi

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Hello again "Metal Ghost":
I had another thought when you mentioned that you were using the F:
drive for a pc backup. Did you partition the drive with F: on it or just
send the back up directly to F:? I'm thinking maybe the backup program is
set up to deny access to the F: drive to protect your backup. The best way
would be to have your 2nd drive partitioned with one partition for only the
backup and the balance in another partition for other storage purposes. I
have a complete back-up on a 2nd hard drive for my Vista pc in a separate
partition and you can't even look at it. I don't know what back up program
you used for a complete pc back up but that might be your problem. If so,
you might need to format the drive and partition it for a separate volume for
the pc back up and another for storage.

xiowan........in tucson

"Metal Ghost" wrote:

Unfortunately no. the drive currently has approximatley 40 GB's of data on
it (really just back-up from the C:Drive), but I tell it that it can use up
to 200GB's of the F:Drive. But it never matters....it still won't keep the
F:Drive as the storage location for TV recording.

I've read through other threads where people have said that it has something
to do with the permissions on the root of the drive. BUT....I admittedly am
not extremely proficient with changing that. I've tooled around with the
permissions on the F:Drive, but nothing looks out of the ordinary. Anyone
have detailed instructions on what this might be?

Oh, and xiowan, thanks for the help though. It is very appreciated.

"xiowan" wrote:

Hello "Metal Ghost":
Is it possible your F: drive is set with too low a "Maximum TV limit"?
On the Recorder Storage interface in Media Center it will first show the
available drives for storage and right below that you can select the maximum
amount of space to devote to tv recordings and it may be set too low for
recording purposes. By default it does not designate the entire drive to
storage and you may have to click the + button and increase the amount
available for recordings.

xiowan..........in tucson

"Metal Ghost" wrote:

Hello eveyrone, and thanks in advance for taking the time to help with this,
it is GREATLY appreciated.

I have an HP Media Center M7590N with dual 250GB Hard Drives (C: and F:).
My C: Drive (which is my primary, has the OS on it, etc.) is almost filled.
I have gone into the Recorder Storage section under Settings in Vista WMC to
change the record drive to my F:drive, which is almost empty.

However, after I press save, if I go back into the Recorder Storage screen
it has defaulted back to the C:Drive. As I test, I recorded a few minutes of
a TV. After I stopped recording, I found the show on the C:Drive.

Any idea why the change isn't sticking?
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