I recently had problems with my firestore drive that I use to capture footage to from my Hvx200. Like a fool I switched the camera into tape mode while the firestore was connected and they not surprisingly lost communication. (I thought I had turned the camera off, whoops) So in doing this I found that the drive would no longer display anything when I turned it on, the camera or computer no longer recognized it. It must have wiped the BIOS off the drive somehow.

So I contact focus support to see what I can do. They tell me there is no way to reinstall the BIOS in “the field” I would have to send it in to fix it for 300$ So I bite the bullet rather than try to fix it myself and risk losing all the footage I have on it (assuming its still there). I get the drive back in a couple weeks and voila , its working again with all my precious footage.

So a month later I decide to upgrade the harddrive in it from a 100gb to 250gb which will give me 1.5x recording time. I have changed harddrives before and there is only six screws keeping me from that badboy, so I say go for it. I format the drive to fat32 with an external enclosure through usb and partition magic. I swap it out in no time, get it back together try to turn it on and what do ya know, it does the same thing it did when the BIOS got wiped. I think for a sec, duh, I forgot to copy the fs-100.bin file and other files from the old drive to the new one. So I repeat the process, get the files off the drive through the enclosure copy them to the new one and what to ya know , it works just fine. So next time I am told I cant do something “in the field” I guess I’ll just have to explain to them that I’m not in “a field”.