Flash Drive: 2GB pqi Intelligent Drive i810

Legacy 1st gen Apple TV
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Dear All,

I used the flash drive above, having read in the sticky thread that somebody had found that it worked fine (since TravelDrives aren’t that easy to come by in the UK, with the exception of Amazon).

Having tried it, it didn’t work. I have followed all the steps very carefully. I just get the Apple logo and normal startup process with no sign that it is even noticing the patchstick.

Since another user has successfully managed to get up and running with the same flash drive, I don’t believe that compatability is the issue. Can you please provide me with some guidance on what to do next?

Kind Regards,

Nick.

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Hello? Is anybody monitoring this board?

If I cannot get this working pretty quickly I’m going to need to request a refund, and I don’t really want to do that - I want to get it working!

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Make sure you are running the installer directly from the downloaded disk image. Do not copy it to the hard drive first.

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I posted this in another thread.

Try this, some people have had this problem.

Without any flash drives plugged in go to the Go menu option in Finder and choose Go To Folder…

Type in /Volumes/

You should see your hard drive and any other USB or FireWire drives that are connected. Are there any other folders there that shouldn’t be? I’ve heard that some people had a volume called Patchstick. If you do have a folder called Patchstick so something close to that, put it in the Trash. After putting it in the Trash then plug in a USB stick, format it, and retry the aTV Flash application. aTV relies on the fact that the USB drive is named a speciifc name and if that “Volume” name is already taken, OS X will add a “1” to the end of the USB stick when it is reformatted. Let me know if that is in fact the problem.

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Without any flash drives plugged in go to the Go menu option in Finder and choose Go To Folder…

Type in /Volumes/

You should see your hard drive and any other USB or FireWire drives that are connected. Are there any other folders there that shouldn’t be? I’ve heard that some people had a volume called Patchstick. If you do have a folder called Patchstick so something close to that, put it in the Trash. After putting it in the Trash then plug in a USB stick, format it, and retry the aTV Flash application. aTV relies on the fact that the USB drive is named a speciifc name and if that “Volume” name is already taken, OS X will add a “1” to the end of the USB stick when it is reformatted. Let me know if that is in fact the problem.

Thanks very much for taking the time to respond. I tried the suggestions in both of the previous posts, but they did not change the situation - unfortunately it still does not work. Does anybody have any other suggestions?