is there a problem with my device manager in black hole 1.7.6

Ive only recently got my 1st solo whcih is running BH 1.7.6

im starting to wonder whether there is an issue with my device manager.

too many times when i go into it to check the USB or HDD that are connected to the box, its crashes.

again yesterday i had my HDD plugged into the front USB port & it was working fine.

put box on standby, unplugged HDD & plugged into rear USB port

turned box back on.

box then does not see HDD

I rebooted the box via the menu & still cant see HDD

went to device manager to see if HDD had been mounted & it crashes.

too often when i go into device manager i am getting this

at the moment i have no HDD connected as the box is not seeing the HDD which only yesterday was fine.

any ideas

guys thanks for this
i was not sure what the best method was in terms of unplugiing the HDD
i didnt know that turning the box off at the mains is the best thing which i am happy to do.
in order to do this is it ok to put it on standby & then turn off at the mains or should i shutdown & then turn off at the mains?

can i also use the hard reset option in the BH shutdown menu as above?

oh ok i thought i would screw teh box up if i just turned it off like that

i usually turn all my appliances off at night but have been leaving the box on as i thought its best practice to leave it constantly on.
is that correct or can i switch it off every night?

oh great thanks for that

I use CrossEPG will i need to download this again in the morning if i turn the box off at night?

Thanks I had the schedhuel set for 8am anyway.

i just wasnt sure that if i turned the box off completely does it lose the config

i will try that & see

Ok bad news I tried what was suggested and to hard reset turn off the box, plug the drive back in and restart but still getting same issues
Drive will not initialize stating error creating partition
When trying to use USB format it says permission denied when trying to create the partition bit before it formats the drive.

Have now disconnect drive partitioned it on pc again as fat32 and tried to plug it back in, restarting etc and again nothing on rear port.

A.m. currently trying to do this again using the front USB port.

There must be something obvious I'm not doing, it can't be this hard to get a HDD set up to use for recording

5Just tried a hard reset via the menu. The box crashed

Is my image looking like it's corrupt or a problem with the box.

I'm using 2.5 inch non powered HDD drives will this matter

Hmmm I've only just got the box and would not know what I needed to do if I were to flash it.

I can't mount the HDD as I can not get into device manager it just crashes every time I try

Quote from master G

Disconnect the HDD and hard reset from the image menu, once the image has loaded connect the HDD and reboot, then setup mountpoints and reboot again...

Didn't work hard reset crashes box tried with powered HDD and same results