Box not the one to blame all of the time!

[mrtweaks]

My son's box had a few strange issues that no one seemed to have had before but got it working of sorts after a reflash and a few tweaks. Then over the weekend it lost all swap files and would not record at all. Then I noticed the light on the external drive was not blinking as it usualy does. So checked it out on my PC and laptop but dead, it seemed? These HDD's have a habit of breaking but usually earlier,if it does not break then works for a few years?

But as luck would have it I had a spare mini usb lead and tried that "It's Alive!" All the issues like lost IP and DNS etc. make to normal. :)

Moral: check the connections as well as the box :)

 

[maff]

My son's box had a few strange issues that no one seemed to have had before but got it working of sorts after a reflash and a few tweaks. Then over the weekend it lost all swap files and would not record at all. Then I noticed the light on the external drive was not blinking as it usualy does. So checked it out on my PC and laptop but dead, it seemed? These HDD's have a habit of breaking but usually earlier,if it does not break then works for a few years?

But as luck would have it I had a spare mini usb and tried that "It's Alive!" All the issues like lost IP and DNS etc. make to normal. :)

Moral: check the connections as well as the box :)

Sometimes when one of my HDDs or flash drives crashes and Windows doesn't recognise it, I use some software called "Hard disk low level format tool". And in most cases allows me to re-format the device, then windows picks it up again. Might be worth trying that before discarding it.

 

[nickyd186]

My son's box had a few strange issues that no one seemed to have had before but got it working of sorts after a reflash and a few tweaks. Then over the weekend it lost all swap files and would not record at all. Then I noticed the light on the external drive was not blinking as it usualy does. So checked it out on my PC and laptop but dead, it seemed? These HDD's have a habit of breaking but usually earlier,if it does not break then works for a few years?

But as luck would have it I had a spare mini usb and tried that "It's Alive!" All the issues like lost IP and DNS etc. make to normal. :)

Moral: check the connections as well as the box :)

Sometimes when one of my HDDs or flash drives crashes and Windows doesn't recognise it, I use some software called "Hard disk low level format tool". And in most cases allows me to re-format the device, then windows picks it up again. Might be worth trying that before discarding it.

totally agree with the low levelling format tool saved me loads of money that thing

 

[systemlord]

Usually, if I'm taking an initialised USB or HDD from a box to use on a PC, I run disk management in Windows then delete the volume, create a new simple volume and format. Usually works and doesn't take too long.

 

[mrtweaks]

Sorry typo I missed out lead. It was the mini to standard usb lead that was at fault the hdd seems fine now. But for some starnge reason when it crashed the box a couple of weeks ago I lost ip and DNS on the network on the zgemma But it is all back to it's old self now. :)