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

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Hello Metal Ghost:
You could try a couple things to see if the entire F: drive was taken
over by a back up program......click "computer" in the start menu then
double click on the F: drive. If you can see all your back up files
individually and open any of them, then the drive should be available to
store other data on it. If the backup is in one folder and you can open it
to view the back up your drive should be available. If you are't allowed to
even open the F: drive there is a distinct possibility that the backup
controls the entire drive. I'm surprised a pc shop would just copy files to
a 2nd drive instead of setting up a complete pc back up you could use to
re-store your entire pc . Original equipment PC manufacturers frequently put
a complete pc backup on separate partition so you can restore your system to
its original state. This is normally in a separate partition on the main
drive. My best guess is after restoring your pc with the Hewlett Packard
backup, they then upgraded to Vista and in the process, didn't partition the
2nd hard drive with separate partition for the backup and the backup
commandeerd the entire drive. If you don't feel you can solve the problem of
the lost 200 GBs on the 2nd drive, I would think they should fix the problem
at no charge if they left most of the 2nd hard drive unusable. It's also
possible that Vista automatically copied the original XP HP complete PC
backup to the 2nd hard drive and took over the whole drive for the sole
purpose of providing a pc back up. If the repair shop didn't know this would
occur they wouldn't have prepared a partition for Vista to select for the
back up.
I always buy the full retail versions of new operating systems so I haven't
run into the problems that might occur when a previous generation OEM pc is
formatted, O.S.re-installed and then upgraded to a newer O.S. like Vista. I
thought Vista just "saved" the prior system in a folder called "Windows old"
which can be used to re-install the older O.S. or can be deleted using "disk
clean-up". You might check your pc and see if it has a file called Windows
old and see if it's located on F:......if so you can delete it as mentioned
and see if that leaves the 2nd drive empty and available for data storage
such as TV recordings. I sure hope I'm not wasting your time with these
suggestions! Good luck.

xiowan.......in tucson

xiowan........in tucson

"Metal Ghost" wrote:

As far as I'm aware a back-up program was never used, though I can't say that
with certainty.

See, it was recently brought into be serviced. When I originally upgraded
from XP MCE 2005, I was also running Windows Live One-Care, which created a
whole set of issues (which I've since learned are pretty well documented).
Anyway, I eventually got sick of dealing with it and had a local repair shop
to a clean install for me.

So, as far as I'm aware they simply copied my C:Drive folders over to the
F:Drive.

"xiowan" wrote:

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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