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Old 19-11-2009, 20:31
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Last night, whilst watching a recording, the Toppy froze and went funny. It then showed the "." on the front, which normally means it needs to be turned off - I tried to turn it off, but it was still frozen, so I turned it off at the mains.

Turned it back on, but the HD doesn't seem to load up and instead of it verifying the files and folders as it normally does after it freezes, it comes up with "Warning: All data on HDD will be lost, proceed with format?"? I can't access any recordings, and it won't pause or record anything, so I'm wondering whether formatting the HD will actually achieve anything? The HD was pretty full before this happened (had about 2GB spare) so I take it I will lose all my recordings?
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Old 20-11-2009, 09:31
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If you do format, yes you'll lose everything.

Running with that little space isn't a good idea; but of more concern if you're seeing this problem is perhaps the power supply - there are details of how to check it at the Toppy forum.

You may also want to use one of the PC tools to try repairing the disk, in case it's just a case of the FAT being messed up - you'll need to remove it from the Toppy to do that.
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Old 20-11-2009, 21:29
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Cheers, will have a look.
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Old 21-11-2009, 17:45
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Go to :

http://www.toppy.org.uk/downloads/info.php?tid=16

and download Topfhdrw

I'd suggest going for a much larger drive too

Topfhdrw will repair your drive and let you copy its contents across to the new drive
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Old 17-01-2010, 02:38
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Will, forgive me if I've been blind, but that link leads to a Toppy.org.uk Download link which leads to http://www.topfield.cc/index-e.html, where I cannot find that file... unless it's "Debugging TAP"

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Old 17-01-2010, 10:34
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Will, forgive me if I've been blind, but that link leads to a Toppy.org.uk Download link which leads to http://www.topfield.cc/index-e.html, where I cannot find that file... unless it's "Debugging TAP"

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I'm sure it was there

However try http://www.topfield.cc/files/Firebir...HDRW_Setup.zip - straight to the download

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Old 17-01-2010, 13:12
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Got 'im, thank you

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Old 22-12-2010, 23:53
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In follow up to my original post, I bought a new Western Digital 500 Gig hard drive (as the one mentioned before had bust and eventually just made clicking noises when the box was turned on) but it doesn't work with my Toppy's firmware (pre-May 2005). I read somewhere that hard drives over 240 Gig(?) cannot be used with Toppy firmware dating before May 2005, so is it possible to update the Toppy's firmware so that it can accept the new hard drive?
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Old 23-12-2010, 07:58
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I'm replying "off the top of my head", cos I'm still a bit bleary

Toppy.org.uk is the best place for everything Toppy related. Here is the firmware page - do not install the very latest firmware, it is not as stable as the recommended one, all info is laid out for us here:

http://www.toppy.org.uk/downloads/firmware.php

There's should be useful info in this Toppy forum thread (from a quick search), you can sign up to the forum and ask questions, there are many helpful experts there:

http://forum.toppy.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17720

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