My nvidia shield TV pro 500gb hard drive got completely formatted as in its completely blank and new. I need help setting up a new hard drive with all the recommended files.
vue944 said:
My nvidia shield TV pro 500gb hard drive got completely formatted as in its completely blank and new. I need help setting up a new hard drive with all the recommended files.
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Do you at least have a bootloader? Are you able to get it in fastboot mode? If so, you can flash the stock images. Otherwise, read through this forum https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/nvidia-shield-tv-ssd-t3402580
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
Hello.
i have a problem with nvidia sheld 500gb
I lost all data on the SSHD. Because I connected it to
computer and formatted. The device starts but you cannot enter fastboot mode.
How to upload a new system and fastboot?
Congratulations, you just made yourself your very own brick.
Why would you ever take out the internal drive and format it in your pc???
Only thing I can think of is looking at a thread like this https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/general/guide-migrate-to-ssd-hdd-size-satv-pro-t3440195 and see if someone has dumped the data from their sshd and then follow the steps, as if you were to install a new harddrive.
My shield with a ssd that has been working for years suddenly wont boot. I pulled the ssd drive and i cant access it. I bought a new 500gb ssd but since I cant clone it cause the first drive is dead. Is there an OS image and any other files that might be needed to set up the new ssd? I have a pc which i used to clone the original drive to the ssd years ago. Wish i could find that original hd to just clone again. But, no joy. Any help with instruction would be helpful. Thanks
I downloaded the torrent that was uploaded to this forum with the bin files, ran the DD commands, but when I do, the drive becomes inaccessible. Not sure what is going on. The SSD is a Samsung 500gb 870 EVO. I'm using Ubuntu for the process. Should I use a different version of Linux? I formatted the drive to GPT/FAT32. Also tried GPT/EXT4. I'll upload a picture in the replies of what the folder shows me after the process.
Also, my Shield drive died, so I can't just clone it, unless it's possible for someone to send an img/iso of theirs, then I can use HDD Raw Cloner or whatever it's called on Windows. But I don't know if someone else's img would work.
Just tried it on Mint. Same issue. SSD just disappears off the devices list as soon as the DD command goes through.
This is what I can see before the drive becomes inaccessible. Says 14 gigs are the size of the files, but then it says 32.8kb used. Makes no sense.
Capitalized the C in sdC. No error this time, terminal didn't say there was no more space. Drive didn't disappear or become inaccessible. But there's no files on the drive.
Oh and I tried removing the 1 from sdc1, seems to make no difference as long as C is capitalized.