A Big thank you for WD

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Just to say thanks for the latest FW update it’s fixed all my problems by wiping the entire drive!!

Some personal videos I had  just put on there prior to upgrade were not backed up and all those hours of ripping my DVDs wasted, so thank you I will in future avoid your products like the plauge. 

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the drive is wiped? please tell me it’s just saying last content source has been removed and when trying to go to content source local, you’re just not seeing the internal drive to be selected.

If that’s the case…

Try the following > Press Setup > System > Media Library OFF > Home Button > Eject Button (and eject any attatched USB external HDDs) > Unplug ether net cable > Unplug the Unit at the back > Count 5 > Plug system bback in.

It should turn on, if not, just use the remote to turn it on. Now wait for the Box to load up. It should take no more than 5-10 minutes for the WD light to stop blinking and go to normal home screen.

Now click on Video > Should tell you last content source was removed > So choose the Internal HDD. then press home button.

Now its your choice what to do here. I tend to turn media library back on and walk away. And while the Hub does its scan, I plug my USB HDDs to a pc, just to make sure they work. Sometime a faulty Eject makes windows want to to scan and fix the drive. That’s fine, just don’t format, even if it tells you to (if it does, turn the power off of the HDD and start back up after a PC reboot) Anyways, while the ext USB HDDs are connected to my PC I’ll delete the .wdtv folders so I can start fresh. Then I’ll eject the HDDs from Windows using its USB tool.

When I come back and if the WD light has stopped blinking, then I’ll attatch a single external USB HDD enclosure and wait for Media Library to rescan. Then one by one the rest of them. After each ext. HDD is attatched and scan has been completed, just for the sake of it, I’ll RESTAT (not reset) the hub in setup.

After all that, THAT’s when I’ll reconnect the ethernet and be back to where I should be. Oh and rebooting any PC’s or devices on your network helps to start fresh as well.

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Thanks for the help, but the give away is the Hub internal HDD had 5Gb of free space then after the upgrade the free space was 966Gb, so i’m really P*ssed off about it.

Some of the stuff I had backed up but have lost a fare bit and I know you should backup everything but didn’t expect a FW update to wipe the drive.

Thanks Anyway