HMI FILES - HOW TO STOP THEM SHOWING ON EXT HARD DRIVE?

Hi - this was posted on the Nov 8, 2012 2:16 PM and it's still hapening any suggestions
Hi there I'm not sure where to post this one:
I have an external Toshiba Hard Drive that I use to copy film over from my Mac. I sometimes pug it into my Humax PVR and most of the files play What I don't understand is when I watch them via the Humax it creates a 'HMI flle'.  I can see this file sowing up when I connect the drive to my Mac.
Is there a way to prevent this? No biggie, just like to keep this in order.  I'm assumingthe drive is formatted correctly?? MS-DOS (FAT32)
I can't reformat the drive now if it isn't as there are too many files but it would be handy to know for future reference.
Cheers.

Thank you so much BDAqua. I turn the Time machine off now.
About the format type, Macbook automatically did it. I guess format type is Mac OS Extended. I tried to connect this external HD to Windows PC but the PC cannot recognize it. So, I cannot recover from PC where I have recovery software. Do you have any idea how to let PC recognize this external HD?
I try to find the way but it seems I have to reconnect the HD back to Mac and try to recover on Mac. Is that only way? Do you have any suggestion? Thanks again.
Pat

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