Ext hard drive wants to reformat and idk why

[moneyadams]

I have seen things similar to what is happening to me right now, but this is a little different. I have had my external hard drive for one or two years i guess, and as soon as I got it, I used it for my dish dvr box. It is a toshiba canvio desk DWC120. I didn't really have a lot of problems from it until a couple of days ago. I went to watch something from the hard drive and it would act like it would select what i wanted but it would not play, so i unplugged the hard drive and plugged it back up, just like any other time that it wouldn't act right. But this time when I plug it back in it says that it needs to be reformatted to work with the dvr box. I have tried unplugging the box, the hard drive again, and have even talked to the dish tech guys. He said that i had no choice but to reformat it. I have tried to connect it to my computer, and my laptop, to see if i could get something off of it using my computer, but neither one will recognize the hard drive. I don't know what else to do at this point but I don't want to lose my recordings. What do I do?

 

[mdram]

drive may be dead, it happens

 

[Bob Haller]

my tivo acted wierd, as the hard drive failed. i lost lots of stuff i really miss

 

[osu1991]

Pytivo and kmttg are nice for saving the files off TiVo before the drives die


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[primestar31]

I have seen things similar to what is happening to me right now, but this is a little different. I have had my external hard drive for one or two years i guess, and as soon as I got it, I used it for my dish dvr box. It is a toshiba canvio desk DWC120. I didn't really have a lot of problems from it until a couple of days ago. I went to watch something from the hard drive and it would act like it would select what i wanted but it would not play, so i unplugged the hard drive and plugged it back up, just like any other time that it wouldn't act right. But this time when I plug it back in it says that it needs to be reformatted to work with the dvr box. I have tried unplugging the box, the hard drive again, and have even talked to the dish tech guys. He said that i had no choice but to reformat it. I have tried to connect it to my computer, and my laptop, to see if i could get something off of it using my computer, but neither one will recognize the hard drive. I don't know what else to do at this point but I don't want to lose my recordings. What do I do?

Wait until after tonight's auto-reboot, and see if that fixes it.

 

[Tampa8]

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