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  1. Hobbit42

    I'm new and I have a problem with my Western Digital External Hard Drive on a Hopper DVR

    WOO-HOO! Success! OK, so I have been retired for four years and it has been six years since I was a UNIX system administrator. We used SUN equipment with Solaris software so I'm not that familiar with Linux, but it occurred to me that there may be a flag or two that needed to be set when I ran...
  2. Hobbit42

    I'm new and I have a problem with my Western Digital External Hard Drive on a Hopper DVR

    It looks like I'm out of luck. I don't think it died, but after running fsck on all of the partitions (which didn't find any errors, damn-it!) it is still doing the same thing. Literally over 100 movies *poof* gone! But I'm still not quite ready to reformat it. If anyone has ANY other...
  3. Hobbit42

    I'm new and I have a problem with my Western Digital External Hard Drive on a Hopper DVR

    OK. I'll try that, but it may take a while. Thanks.
  4. Hobbit42

    I'm new and I have a problem with my Western Digital External Hard Drive on a Hopper DVR

    I have a Western Digital External hard drive that has a ton of movies on it and as of a few weeks ago it quit showing up. I have tried everything I know to do to get it to show up again, but every time I connect it I get a message that says it needs to be formatted. Please, someone tell me there...