Cannot Access MBL 3TB!

Cannot Access MBL 3TB!

netarchie 30 Oct 2011 03:14

Hello,

I am not able to access my MBL Live 3TB from network! I am not sure what has happened but the other night while I was watching movie, streaming files from the MBL, suddenly it stopped, till some time I was able to ping the MBL but not able to access the shares or through the WEBUI.I left it then.

Next Morning I was not able to ping the MBL. The network link blinks and shows activity in the MBL.
The HDD inside seems to be sort of dead!

When I (re)power on the device, the disk seems to be spinning for some time but goes dead again after some time! The network link shows fine, but I am not able to access the device at all, No Ping and No GUI access.

The LED lighs have not been working for some time.About a week before this happened.

I am on the previous firmware to the latest released one.

Is there a way I can somehow access the device?? What could be possibly wrong.!

Tried to do a soft reset (reset switch), it does not seem to reset!

I have no way to access the MBL now!!

Thanks in advance.

Re: Cannot Access MBL 3TB!

netarchie 31 Oct 2011 01:24

Before RMA, I would like to know if there are any chance of recovering the data of the HDD?

I am not sure if the HDD is failed or the network support has failed.

The disk spins for some time but stop after about 1 minutes when switched off and on again.
Also the network links led gives glowing and blinking as though to indicate activity.

Had quite a bit of data which was not backed up!

Thanks in advance.

Re: Cannot Access MBL 3TB!

RaymondDay 01 Nov 2011 11:28

Open it up and remove the SATA hard drive and put it in a PC.

Ran SpinRite on it. That can fix a lot of hard drives if at lest the computer can still see it. Then back it up to a new hard drive. Because I guess it's going bad.

SpinRite cost like $80 but you can use it over and over again. It's real good at fixing hard drives as long as the computer can still see them. Go to grc.com and you can buy it there.

With SpinRite it will show you if the drive is bad or not. It will show parts it recoverd on it's display. It's a boot CD.

-Raymond Day

Last edited on 01 Nov 2011 11:30 by RaymondDay Show more