Shield 500GB HDD Fried - Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Hi,
Bit of a coincidence, but after the 7.02 update, my shield died. After investigation I found that the Hdd had fried. I have bought from Amazon an exact replica of the 500gb hdd that was installed in the shield.
My problem now is trying to get any firmware onto the brand new HDD. When plugged into the PC (win 10) all i get in device manager, is an unrecognized APX device, with the yellow warning triangle. I have downloaded and tried to update the drivers to this device from the Nvidia developers site, these are not recognized. I have adb and fastboot installed, this also does not recognize the device. obviously, i cannot
get the device into fastboot via the power button, due to the hdd being blank, and unable to get any bootloader or image transferred onto the HDD. I have searched the internet for fixes, but as yet no avail. So to summarize, Brand new HDD of original specs in the 500GB 2015 shield, not recognized by windows, and cannot get adb fastboot to see it, or put the shield itself in fastboot mode. Any ideas much appreciated.
Fried Hard Drive
chromedome21 said:
Hi,
Bit of a coincidence, but after the 7.02 update, my shield died. After investigation I found that the Hdd had fried. I have bought from Amazon an exact replica of the 500gb hdd that was installed in the shield.
My problem now is trying to get any firmware onto the brand new HDD. When plugged into the PC (win 10) all i get in device manager, is an unrecognized APX device, with the yellow warning triangle. I have downloaded and tried to update the drivers to this device from the Nvidia developers site, these are not recognized. I have adb and fastboot installed, this also does not recognize the device. obviously, i cannot
get the device into fastboot via the power button, due to the hdd being blank, and unable to get any bootloader or image transferred onto the HDD. I have searched the internet for fixes, but as yet no avail. So to summarize, Brand new HDD of original specs in the 500GB 2015 shield, not recognized by windows, and cannot get adb fastboot to see it, or put the shield itself in fastboot mode. Any ideas much appreciated.
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Sorry to hear your HD died, mine died last month. First you can not see anything on the HD, because it has special encryption. Just using a firmware will not work. You need to have a new SSHD drive, or as i did replace with 500 gig SSD. Now here is the problem you need to make a bit by bit image of the drive, if it is fried, you will not be able to do it. I was lucky, my son has the same drive so i was able to make my image, There are many steps to getting a new drive up and running. First you need to find a Friend or someone who would let you use there Shield Tv Pro, you need to ope the Shield tv and take the HD out of the borrowed one, then you need a USB SATA connector for the HD from the Borrowed HD and you need to have 500 gig of space on a PC or Laptop HD to store the Image to, it takes about 4 hours to make image, then you hook up the New HD Drive to the SATA Connection and then copy the image From PC to the new drive, that takes about 3 hours, then carefully put drives back in there Shield Tv boxes. there is a small image software to do the image making, i don't remember the name of it. so as you see it is a long process
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