Stuck In Recovery Mode

[blackhatpirate10]

my ZVM has been stuck in recovery mode. And when i try to format the disk or reload the firmware the "Harddisk Problem" sign and words pop up preventing any changes. And when i go to clean up, i'm not sure if the scroll bar is supposed to be moving when it's scanning the disk. Does anyone know what to do?

[XJ3F3Y]

Sounds very much like a broken hard drive. Your not meant to be able to scroll while it's scanning either. This happened with mine but i got lucky and all that had happened was the connector came out of the hard drive so i reseated it and it was fine. Hopefully you got lucky too. However i doubt it as the HDD that comes in the player new is probably a Hitachi which won't have a problem with the connector fitting properly.

[BobbyRS]

Hello blackhatpirate10. Welcome. Yeah, I agree; possibly a hard drive on its way out. To be sure, you can open it up to check/reseat the connection. You can also try removing the drive and using an enclosure or USB adapter to see if you can format and use the drive within Windows just to verify if it is still good or not.

Here is the ABI disassembly guide.
Here is a video of a disassembly.

Good luck!

[blackhatpirate10]

alright. so it turns out. after i left it on scan disk all night (12 hrs +). it started up properly. two days later (today), it dropped and it's stuck in recovery mode again. so does that mean the hard drive is very likely to be loosened?

[XJ3F3Y]

It could be either open it up and find out.

[BobbyRS]

Yes, definitely open it up and check; especially since it got dropped again. It is worth checking out.