Video: Installing Hard Drive in the Popcorn Hour
I finally installed a hard drive inside the Popcorn Hour. It is only a 80GB hard drive but I wanted to use the device for BitTorrent. It seems like it buffers things faster now too. I don’t know if it actually does or if I just think so. Check out the video below.
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Maybe you should have install the power cable on the harddrive first before slide the drive onto the IDE connector.
Uhh, the popcorn hour is advertised as being able to have a hard drive installed. This is part of it’s purpose. It’s not really a hack or anything secret.
I don’t claim that it is a hack. The video is a how-to. There were other misinformed websites claiming that it was a hack.
Thanks for posting this, I just got a new PCH and I wanted to see what the process was to format the disk after the physical installation was complete.
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