Luke
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I have a 500GB Seagate Pipeline ST3500312CS which I want to have as a spare and wanted to check it worked OK before putting it in storage. The issue is that the Data Storage option on the HDR-FOX T2 is greyed out and so I cannot get the HDR to format the drive.
Any ideas of what I could try?
Any ideas of what I could try?
- There are no recordings set to record.
- Swopping that drive out and another in and the HDR-FOX T2 Data Storage is available again. (I.e. no issues with the connectors.)
- Reinstalling the unrecognised disk to make sure that the connectors are connected firmly still has the Data Storage option greyed out.
- The disk was formatted NTFS and recognised by Windows. I ran the quick Seagate tools and Windows checks. Both reported no errors.
- I have also tried the following (without the quick format as it was already 1 partition NTFS) but the Data Storage option remained greyed out:
I have ... had ... issues ...: fix disk finding problems with every inode and the Hummy incapable of reformatting, saying that the disk is too large. I did manage to fix this, albeit in an inelegant fashion. I took the disk back out of the Hummy and connected it to a Windows PC. Using disk management I did a quick format: this only takes a few minutes. This gives a single NTFS partition. Then I used the same tool to convert the partition to unallocated: right-click on the partition and delete it. When put back in the Hummy, the drive could be formatted again. If you try this and it works I recommend installing the customised firmware again before proceeding with installing the full web interface.