Do I have to format?

[Barqs]

Ok, so I always configure the PVR to record a movie when I go to sleep. It has been working Ok with some minor glitches (eg: stb freezes when download complete). This morning however, I checked on the recorded movie and when I go to view my recorded programs, it's says that there is nothing recorded. Even all my old recorded programs are not showing. When I view the Hard Drive info it was sayin 2% used (makes sense, 1TB drive). So I switched the active USB port and switched it back, same thing. I power cycled the stb and now it wants me to format the Hard drive and I really dont want to do that!

So any help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Nemesis989]

try doing a factory reset, load the the latest bin file and plug your hard drive back in and do a hard reboot, that might help, i have never had that problem before so cant guarantee that it will work but its a good place to start

[cribber]

Originally Posted by Barqs

Ok, so I always configure the PVR to record a movie when I go to sleep. It has been working Ok with some minor glitches (eg: stb freezes when download complete). This morning however, I checked on the recorded movie and when I go to view my recorded programs, it's says that there is nothing recorded. Even all my old recorded programs are not showing. When I view the Hard Drive info it was sayin 2% used (makes sense, 1TB drive). So I switched the active USB port and switched it back, same thing. I power cycled the stb and now it wants me to format the Hard drive and I really dont want to do that!

So any help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Your hard drive is a way to big. 500 gig is the max and only a few stb's can handle that.
This year 3 new models are coming out from sonicview that will support up to a tb.

[Barqs]

Originally Posted by cribber

Your hard drive is a way to big. 500 gig is the max and only a few stb's can handle that.
This year 3 new models are coming out from sonicview that will support up to a tb.

Hey sorry, my drive is 500G not 1TB, I originally bought a 1TB drive but after reading some threads I decided to downgrade to 500Gigs

[cribber]

You want a hard drive with a 8 mb buffer. Less than that an you probably will have issues with it. I recommend a Maxtor as mine has worked perfectly.

[badboy12]

i also have a maxtor 160g mine works great other then when i pause live tv then play what i miss it freezes mine only showed no movies once and i hard booted after i loaded the current bin.

[Barqs]

Thanks to everyone who answered. For some reason the drive is working again, I didn't do anything other than I went to work for 8hrs and when I got back home everything was normal.... weired, but those are some of the glitches I was talking about