Ext HDD failed on receiver, but not on WinVista?

[sclaws]

Turned on my 722 this evening and was greeted with a msg stating my connected USB device was not compatible (a 750GB drive that I've used for archiving for months). Tried a reboot, power cycle of the drive and combinations but no success. The 722 then prompted me to format the drive. Fine. Well...format failed!

OK...thinking failed drive, I popped it onto my Vista machine--boom--works fine. Vista sees 3 'Healthy' partitions. Just to test, I delete the partitions and reformat as NTFS...yeah, its working fine with Windows.

Great. Next step was to reconnect to the 722 in hopes of a successful reformat, but no such luck--same error, same failed format.

Short of trying a new drive does anyone out there have any suggestions?

 

[whatchel1]

hates you

Linux hates you.

 

[dfergie]

Try a different USB Cable... I had a drive do that, changed cable and it worked... (still works)

 

[8bitbytes]

I had a power supply go bad on me and the EHDs would act up. I plugged a new power supply into my EHDs and now they all work fine.

 

[sclaws]

Thx...hadn't tried either of those suggestions. Will do tonite!

 

[8bitbytes]

Thx...hadn't tried either of those suggestions. Will do tonite!

Also, some have had their EHD become inaccessible and after they called tech support and got them to send a "hit" to their DVR, they regained use and access to the drive.

Good luck! Let us know what happens!