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- Oct 27, 2008
OK so I use a Seagate FreeAgent Home Theater HD + to stream media from my external hard drive and internet to my home theater system.
Recently it unexpectedly crashed and upon restart it would no longer scan the files on the external drive. Normally, upon boot it creates and index file on the external drive for all the movies on it. Occasionally this file has to be deleted so it will properly update and when its being created new again it takes a minute or so to index the entire drive. So I deleted the old index file and got the FA box booted back up for it to attempt to index for a couple of seconds and then report that no files were found.
The external drive and cables are working perfectly and have been tested.
So I reflashed the firmware of the FreeAgent Home Theater HD + with the most current v2.23 FW (the same FW it already had) via same USB port and usb stick from the menu and then the 'cold boot' method. Both times the firmware updated normally and the box seemed to behave normally but still wouldn't index the files on the external drive.
Oh and here is an odd thing I noticed, the .Theater index file has a creation/modified date of 7/20/2016.... So somehow the system thinks its from the future.
Then when the external drive was only connected to my computer and the FreeAgent Home Theater HD + was unplugged sitting on the desk I noticed that the .Theater index file had reappeared.
So I tried to delete it only to get an error as if it didn't exist. So I SHIFT+Delete it and it went away only to reappear the second the drive was refreshed. I tried this again from safemode and same thing... But this whole time the FreeAgent box is not connected and there is no software installed that controls it so I have no idea why this ghost file keeps coming back.
I even went into to the folder properties and enabled viewing of protected system files and then went into the actual recycle bin and confirmed that it was indeed completely gone from the system but some how it keeps getting generated.
I have a thread going here on the Seagate forums but I'm fairly certain this is not related to the Seagate FreeAgent Home Theater HD +. I think its getting messed up by this file already being present when it tries to index.
Any ideas?
Recently it unexpectedly crashed and upon restart it would no longer scan the files on the external drive. Normally, upon boot it creates and index file on the external drive for all the movies on it. Occasionally this file has to be deleted so it will properly update and when its being created new again it takes a minute or so to index the entire drive. So I deleted the old index file and got the FA box booted back up for it to attempt to index for a couple of seconds and then report that no files were found.
The external drive and cables are working perfectly and have been tested.
So I reflashed the firmware of the FreeAgent Home Theater HD + with the most current v2.23 FW (the same FW it already had) via same USB port and usb stick from the menu and then the 'cold boot' method. Both times the firmware updated normally and the box seemed to behave normally but still wouldn't index the files on the external drive.
Oh and here is an odd thing I noticed, the .Theater index file has a creation/modified date of 7/20/2016.... So somehow the system thinks its from the future.
Then when the external drive was only connected to my computer and the FreeAgent Home Theater HD + was unplugged sitting on the desk I noticed that the .Theater index file had reappeared.
So I tried to delete it only to get an error as if it didn't exist. So I SHIFT+Delete it and it went away only to reappear the second the drive was refreshed. I tried this again from safemode and same thing... But this whole time the FreeAgent box is not connected and there is no software installed that controls it so I have no idea why this ghost file keeps coming back.
I even went into to the folder properties and enabled viewing of protected system files and then went into the actual recycle bin and confirmed that it was indeed completely gone from the system but some how it keeps getting generated.
I have a thread going here on the Seagate forums but I'm fairly certain this is not related to the Seagate FreeAgent Home Theater HD +. I think its getting messed up by this file already being present when it tries to index.
Any ideas?