Figured I'd post this here as there are a lot of tech guys on this board.
I just bought a new 500gb external SATA HD and enclosure to expand my PVR. After apparently hooking up successfully, my PVR immediately froze upon viewing a channel, then would reboot, then freeze, then reboot again, then told me there was a problem with the drive. Now the combination I bought is one confirmed to work the my Scientific Atlanta 8300HD, so that should be fine. I hooked it up via USB to my Windows XP computer to format it there, fearing I may have not given the PVR enough time to format it. Its been 11 (yes, eleven) hours and its formatted 4% of the drive. I can hear the drive spinning, but the "clicking" noises of the drive being accessed are very sporadic, coming in brief 1 second bursts every 10 or 15 seconds. I'm assuming the drive is not functioning properly? There is no way it should possibly be taking this long to format, correct?
