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Now SA 8240 won't read from external HD any longer
My Weaknees SATA external hard drive was working well with my SA 8240 HDC, as I had posted in an earlier thread last month. Yesterday, I had to unplug the hard drive and the 8240 to access some other cables in my entertainment center. Unfortunately, I plugged in the 8240 first, before plugging in the hard drive. I caught the error before the 8240 fully booted up. I know this because the display was still blank, not showing the current time, when I quickly unplugged the 8240.
I then plugged in the hard drive, let it run for a few minutes, then plugged in the 8240, which booted up just fine. All the recorded programs showed as normal (27 programs recorded) and 25% of recordable space used. The problem is when I went to the 8240 "recorded" program list to view one of these previously recorded program.
When I selected a specific recorded program from the list which was recorded prior to the above unplugging, the 8240 could not find it. All I got was a default DVR page telling me to go to the "list" button. I tried unplugging the hard drive and 8240 again, repeating the proper power up seqence as above, but to no avail. I still can't access programs recorded prior to the first unplugging, but I can view more recently recorded programs. In addition, even though I cannot view one of these earlier recorded progrms, I can erase them.
Question: what can I do to be able to access all these prior recorded programs that I can see on the "recorded program" list?
I would hate to lose all of them.
Thank you.
I then plugged in the hard drive, let it run for a few minutes, then plugged in the 8240, which booted up just fine. All the recorded programs showed as normal (27 programs recorded) and 25% of recordable space used. The problem is when I went to the 8240 "recorded" program list to view one of these previously recorded program.
When I selected a specific recorded program from the list which was recorded prior to the above unplugging, the 8240 could not find it. All I got was a default DVR page telling me to go to the "list" button. I tried unplugging the hard drive and 8240 again, repeating the proper power up seqence as above, but to no avail. I still can't access programs recorded prior to the first unplugging, but I can view more recently recorded programs. In addition, even though I cannot view one of these earlier recorded progrms, I can erase them.
Question: what can I do to be able to access all these prior recorded programs that I can see on the "recorded program" list?
I would hate to lose all of them.
Thank you.
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