Hard Drive Heartache

[Mr Tony]

OK I've stumbled upon a.........I dont know what the heck it is....not really a bug of the Micro.....Hope not

So today I was playing with the C-Band side and was doing snippets of recordings for fun (and weird stuff I saw). Using a Western Digital 500GB drive. Did some recordings and stuff. All of a sudden I tried to record and got this popup on screen
CAN not record

Huh? Why wouldnt it let me. Powered off and back on and tried again. Same thing. Did factory reset (I save my channel list so when I'm done with C-Band I can load my list back in there)...same result.

Checked DVR and there is 14 recordings in the list. Removed a recording from the DVR list then tried...went off without a hitch
Tried to record another channel....same issue CAN not record

So I hooked up an older WD 320GB drive that had nothing on it. Recorded many snippets (2-3 minute recordings)....had 28 on there with no issues
Hooked back up the 500GB drive and tried it...CAN not record shows on the screen and it wont record
Hooked the 320GB drive back up and did another 15 or so recordings

This makes no sense as both were formatted on the computer 1st to NTFS (or whatever its called) then formatted on the MicroHD again as NTFS.
Why would the 320GB drive work fine yet the 500GB craps out after 14 recordings?

Anybody else run across this?

Thanks!

 

[brentb636]

Can you plug the 500 GB drive into your computer, and transfer a file to it ? Or copy several files from the drive to the computer, rename them and copy them back , so there are 18-20 files on the drive. Put it back on the MicroHD and see if it will record ? I'm suspicious of the drive, but it will take some experimentation to reveal more evidence.

 

[Mr Tony]

I'm trying that right now. I really dont want to format the drive as there is some good stuff from that new Cuba station

 

[rv1pop]

I had a simular sounding problem with the 1100c. SO: what does the free space show for the 500 GB drive? Did it have a sleep mode? AND can you record something 100 MB onto it from the computer and try again? There seemed to be something on the two I have that at some point would not record with the 1100c recording a file onto the drive would get through that point and it would be OK until around 260 GB then would not record again. I could transfer files from "Thumb Drives" to the Hard Drive and they would play back OK on the 1100c. Would not successfully record any more programs with the receiver on that drive.
I dunna nokw.

 

[Mr Tony]

There was around 450GB left on the drive

brent that trick seemed to work. I copied one of the files so it had 2 on the hard drive. I've tried some more recording and all have gone off without a hitch. Up to 30 now on the hard drive.

Its just weird.....I'm going to start removing files and get it down to say 13 and then try again

 

[Mr Tony]

weird...removed files ot get to like 12 and then tried again and it worked fine. Have about 20 recordings now on the 500GB drive and no issues

 

[KE4EST]

That was very Strange.

 

[Mr Tony]

yup. It is weird that the 500gb drive has given me fits yet the 320gb works just fine

 

[brentb636]

There was around 450GB left on the drive

brent that trick seemed to work. I copied one of the files so it had 2 on the hard drive. I've tried some more recording and all have gone off without a hitch. Up to 30 now on the hard drive.

Its just weird.....I'm going to start removing files and get it down to say 13 and then try again

It IS very weird, Tony. The drive was at some critical weird point. I'm glad it worked , but I can't help but wonder that if you get down to zero files, and start over with the drive, if the weirdness would repeat itself. I guess IF it does, then you have a workaround ( if the workaround WORKS next time ! ) WEIRD ..
[edit] I suppose it's possible that the Windows PC "touching" the drive happened to "clean up" some minor partitioning table error , and now ALL will be fine.

 

[Mr Tony]

Its not like right now anything I'm recording falls under the "oh my god if I lose it I'm screwed" category...just some cartoons on PBJ and some from Cubana De TV. More just testing out the features on the MicroHD than anything else

 

[Corrado]

I noticed Win7 always wants to fix external memory devices when connected to the PC. Not sure what exactly what it would address. I formatted an old 40G PC drive with NTFS to test with. So far, so good.