martip - 4 days ago »
Graham,
Thank you for your responses.
We shall see how things go now - I haven't dared re-boot the device yet though
Well now - box worked for a couple of days, and then whilst watching a recording the recording stopped suddenly with a black screen! Exit returned us to live TV ok, but then the familiar "You have no recordings" message was there. I decided that enough was enough and I would re-format the HD. Now although the box could "see" the HD, when I asked it to format it, the "formatting" message flashed up and then a message to the effect that "your hardrive is not formatted yet. Please try again" and the format exits. So, a power cycle, or re-boot whatever you want to call it, with a substantial down time and the recordings reappeared. So I decided to format, and this time that was successful! We successfully recorded a programme last evening, and played the first few minutes of it ok. Just turned the box on now, and the HD is not recognised - arggggh!!
The HD has been spinning up and down regularly still, even though I have factory defaulted it, re booted it and now formatted it - what more can I do to stop this, and how do I remove the pairing within the freesat app on our iPad? I can see nothing within the app, or within the box's menus to achieve that.
Sorry for the lengthy rant but this really is frustrating.
Anyone any constructive suggestions?
Thanks.