Dear got the same problem with me and why USB Flash changed, and now working

Your disk may need to be formatted so that the dreambox can access it..

If you took the external HD from a windows box and the disk is quite big it may be formatted with NTFS which is a proprietary microsoft filesystem that i doubt the dreambox can read...

If you only want to use the drive with your dreambox and other linux machines you can initialize it from within the menu, if you want to use it with windows you will have to format it as fat32, and know that fat32 won't support files larger than 2gb (ie no very long or high definition movies)

i i have a hdd usb that will not intialise and the same goes for pen stick
so has anyone founf the answer yet?
thanks
joe