Hi,
Some advice and then a question.
I recently has the E16 error. I removed the disk from the Linkstation had someone extract the data I required from the hard disk. He told me it looked like the partition was damaged.
Now I have the data I need from the disk I was hoping to put it back together and see if I could format the hard disk and get it working again.
I followed the steps above and the TFTP Boot and NAS Navigator register the device however when I try to update the firmware (which I assume is the next step) I got an error saying "Couldn't Confirm a response from HS-DHGL-EM9CF, please check a network address of both PC and HS-DHGL-EM9CF, Please disable the firewall if it is working on the PC. Update aborted."
I eventually managed to get this to work by removing the static IP address from the PC network settings and allowing it to set this automatically. (That is the advice). The firmware updater now finds the Linkstation and tries to update the firmware.
When I run the updater it tells me I need to format the drive as expected but when I try to run the format it comes back with an error "Failed to format (ACP_STATE_ERROR)". I take it that means it is game over for the hard drive?
Many thanks in advance.
Gordon