I have a HD-H300Lan linkstation. I recently discovered some corrupted music files on it. So I deleted all my files (I have backups), and tried to do a full disk scan. The disk scan did not work—the disk-full led would flash forever and my browser connect to it would be lost. So I tried to update the firmware from version 1.44 to 1.47. The update seemed to go fine until the final popup said the attempt to renew the firmware failed. Now I apparently have no firmware. (The IP utility says I have firmware version 3.0, which is impossible given that I had 1.44 and was upgrading to 1.47.) The linkstation does show up when I log into the router and responds to a ping. But I cannot connect to the linkstation's IP address using my browser, and it does not show up in my Windows network, perhaps because is has no workgroup assigned.
Any suggestions?
If a FW update failed you can try to force the FW on, since the unit is still "reachable" per say via router and ping, you should be able to follow a force firmware on the unit. Walkthru as follows http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-2-of-4-Force-Firmware-update-procedure-please-read-this/td-p/11011
Thanks for the suggestion. I cannot follow the force firmware update instructions because the zip package for my firmware update does not include the "NASupdater application". I had difficulty finding the firmware from withing the buffalo site and had to find the link using google. The package I downloaded was HD-HLAN_FW147. I did another google search today, and got a link to a different package that is older firmware than I had (HD-HGLAN_142); it also does not include the "NASupdater application".
I tried installing version1.42 firmware and the software was not able to find a linkstation on my network. The 1.47 firmware install is able to find a linkstation, but the firmware update fails.