I did that though - I used a partition manager to set the drive as "Unformatted" and it was detected as such by the stock firmware and formatted properly.
When I powered the box down for just over 5 minutes, I powered it back on and the drive was subsequently not detected by the box.
You did read correctly. When I started this whole affair, I had the custom firmware already installed and working on the box with the 500gb Seagate Pipeline drive it came with when I bought it. Everything worked without a problem. I picked up the 1TB drive yesterday and when I unpacked it...
Right, this is what I've done so far.
Flashed back to stock firmware and reinstalled the original drive. Did a factory reset and everything was fine. Drive was detected and could be formatted correctly via the menu option. Unit worked without an issue.
Flashed to the custom firmware...
Thankyou. I do recognise now that It was clearly the wrong move.
What I probably didn't mention, which I apologise for, is that one thing I tried in one of those rabbit holes was pulling the WD Purple drive and attaching it to my PC so I could wipe the drive and start again. At the time, I...
I picked up a Foxsat HDR a few days ago with a 500gb hard drive. Flashed Raydon's firmware no problem. Everything working nicely so decided to order a new WD Purple 1TB drive to upgrade.
That drive came today so I pulled the 500gb Pipeline drive and installed the new one. Booted the box...
Nine days ago, the box was fine. Since then, when I go to the diagnostics menu when i'm on certain channels, I can get Strength 90% and quality 70% on Tuner 1 and, for some reason, Strength 100% and quality 70% on Tuner 2.
If i go to any of these channels ..
150/151 - Travel Channel/+1
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