First Day PIPO X8 Mini TV BOX Windows 8.1 Android 4.4 Dual Boot Intel Z3736F Update

[soruyok]

Did somebody try to use 2,5" USB HDD with X8 and did it use without any problem?

[trebor]

I was under the impression when you boot from Win10 USB, as Android Partitions are hidden from Windows,
Windows assumes the free space left, is all the space and formats installs (excluding hidden Android).
But I am still coming to grips with the finer parts of all this dual boot business.

[Savage93]

I think there should be some useful info in these readme files, it's a pity I don't speak Chinese.

[pmcd]

Diskpart shows the 15 partitions that Android made but there is no obvious way to deal with the rest of the disk so hopefully gparted will work.Android seems to use the Linux file system so that is a plus. The other way might be to just install Windows 10 pro then erase it and install the Pipo win 10. Too bad there's no way of using those images to restore the unit.

Sent from my Fire HDX.

[Savage93]

Are you saying I have to manually restore all those partitions? What is in Images? Could that somehow be used to reset the unit to factory settings? Sigh ...

The Android installer should create those partitions automatically (they are set in the partition.tbl file).

I thought about that. Will try it or something like it unless there is some kind of factory reset. Windows itself has diskpart but I don't know if it's on the install disk.

Yeah but IIRC diskpart only has CLI, while GParted has a GUI, so maybe it's easier to use.

[pmcd]

Maybe you could try live booting an Ubuntu image and then use GParted to prepare the partitions for the windows installation.

I thought about that. Will try it or something like it unless there is some kind of factory reset. Windows itself has diskpart but I don't know if it's on the install disk.

[pmcd]

Are you saying I have to manually restore all those partitions? What is in Images? Could that somehow be used to reset the unit to factory settings? Sigh ...

[trebor]

Finally got the flash drive to boot. I had to prepare it using diskpart. Unfortunately, the internal partition is messed up so that windows does not find an internal drive to install things on. Is there a way to fix the partition? Android is using 8gigs and I want the rest to be ntfs. I assume this can't be done from Android. Slowly but surely this might yet work.

Should look something like this or close

All the Hidden stuff is Android

[Savage93]

Finally got the flash drive to boot. I had to prepare it using diskpart. Unfortunately, the internal partition is messed up so that windows does not find an internal drive to install things on. Is there a way to fix the partition? Android is using 8gigs and I want the rest to be ntfs. I assume this can't be done from Android. Slowly but surely this might yet work.

Maybe you could try live booting an Ubuntu image and then use GParted to prepare the partitions for the windows installation.

[trebor]

No, the ext HDD does not have power supply, it is 2,5" HDD

A power plug pack with more AMPS/watts to supply PiPo and HDD may help
A powered USB Hub may also do the job.
Cheers

[soruyok]

Does the Ext HDD have power supply, ?
Could be overheating try Real Temp to check https://www.techpowerup.com/download...eal-temp-3-70/

Speaker thru HDMI to TV not working maybe balance set wrong
Cheers

No, the ext HDD does not have power supply, it is 2,5" HDD

[trebor]

You would have all the Android dir/partitions and about 20GB free
Windows would normally just format free space and continue on.

[pmcd]

Finally got the flash drive to boot. I had to prepare it using diskpart. Unfortunately, the internal partition is messed up so that windows does not find an internal drive to install things on. Is there a way to fix the partition? Android is using 8gigs and I want the rest to be ntfs. I assume this can't be done from Android. Slowly but surely this might yet work.

[trebor]

Does the Ext HDD have power supply, ?
Could be overheating try Real Temp to check https://www.techpowerup.com/download...eal-temp-3-70/

Speaker thru HDMI to TV not working maybe balance set wrong
Cheers

[soruyok]

Hi,

I bought Pipo X8 too but I have some problems.

1- When I plug 2,5" external HDD to X8, I hear continious beep and cannot see it in explorer or access to HDD on Windows. I didn't try it on Androd because Android does not support NTFS.
2- Frequenly, the device turn itself off when I open on-screen keyboard or try to play movie file or to do something.
3- Left speaker is not working, it should be a hardware problem because I tried to use different speaker but nothing changed.

Did you use 2,5" HDD with X8 or do you have any turn-off problem on Windows?

Btw, I re-installed Win 8.1 after that I installed new BIOS file and windows 10 but my problems still continue.