Freesat 4K UHD Set Top Box Hard Drive Failure and Successful Repair
The Recordable Freesat 4K set top box uses an internal hard drive to enable to you record, pause and playback live TV.
Like all hard drives, they can fail.
If your Recordable Freesat 4K set top box starts to miss recordings, then this may be the first indication that the hard drive is failing.
The box may also display a “something is wrong” warning screen when powering up.

Freesat hard drive error message
You are given the options to reboot, delete recordings, or ignore.
But if the hard drive has failed, then you will continue to see the “something is wrong” warning screen when powering up.
So the only option is to replace the failed hard drive with a new working hard drive.
This is the process how to install a new hard drive into your Recordable Freesat 4K set top box
Freesat 4K UHD Set Top Box Hard Drive Failure and Successful Repair
I replaced my defective Freesat HDD with an identical Toshiba disc. THis has failed too after a relatively short time. Does anyone have any idea why 2 drives should have failed?
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