Panasonic DMR-BWT700 - drive replacement

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fritzman

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#270040 20-Apr-2020 17:01

Hiya

I've tried various drives including a W/D Blue 500Gb to Samsung 500Gb SSD, all in varying formats, and ca't get the drive to initialise properly.

This is the drive that (has two bad sectors in it) came out...

The Panasonic just sits there and has a single disc light flashing about every second, and if I go into the menu and try to format the disk that is n it, it simply says it cannot.

I'll get it out of the TV Cabinet later and have another check to see I can be more specific with the wording.

Hopefully someone has some ideas/pointers...

Sons Rig: Asus TUF Gaming X-570, Ryzen 9 3900X, G.Skill neo 2x16Gb 3600's, Sabrent Rocket 1Tb M.2, Win10 Pro, Phanteks case, EVGA G5 850W.

NAS: DS1819+ - 52Tb in Raid6

My rig: HP Elitebook X360 Lappy with a 2Tb SN850.. woohoo.. I've retired!

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anz100

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#2467128 21-Apr-2020 14:55

Hi - you should read from avforums.com some general advice on these Panny units, indicating that you may be out of luck. Just google "Panasonic DMR-BWT700 - drive replacement"

However, both the related threads on replacing HDD in PWT550 and also in a Panasonic 720 may give you some workarounds, even though they are for different models.

Regards

fritzman

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#2467138 21-Apr-2020 15:12

Thanks for that.
Yes, I saw and followed one of them and managed to get a 250Gb SSD that I had spare set up and accepted, but am now getting U61 or U88 errors, so suspect power supply issues or capacitor issues.
Might just have to bin it me thinks.

Sons Rig: Asus TUF Gaming X-570, Ryzen 9 3900X, G.Skill neo 2x16Gb 3600's, Sabrent Rocket 1Tb M.2, Win10 Pro, Phanteks case, EVGA G5 850W.

NAS: DS1819+ - 52Tb in Raid6

My rig: HP Elitebook X360 Lappy with a 2Tb SN850.. woohoo.. I've retired!

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fritzman

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#2468132 22-Apr-2020 22:07

Managed to get as far as Initialising it back to Factory state today, and that appears to have removed the error codes from the cache... unit seems to be back to normal now, so will pop it upstairs again, tune it in and see how we go.

More later.

Sons Rig: Asus TUF Gaming X-570, Ryzen 9 3900X, G.Skill neo 2x16Gb 3600's, Sabrent Rocket 1Tb M.2, Win10 Pro, Phanteks case, EVGA G5 850W.

NAS: DS1819+ - 52Tb in Raid6

My rig: HP Elitebook X360 Lappy with a 2Tb SN850.. woohoo.. I've retired!

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