Thanks, Wesley_Lenovo,
I am carefully reading all conversation in this regard, as I have also same issue. My "Home Media Network HD died after recent firmware upgrade". After reading & trying several methods mentioned in this & other forums, Home Media HD is still not recognised on the network.
So, as per your suggestion I contacted "Tech-supprt" via email as "live chat" is not available in Australia (shame on you Lenovo). They responded me after 3 working days & asked Sr. No. of my drive, which I gave them. They replied next day (wow) stating that, my drive is "out of warranty" (I know that). But they will email me "Imager" which will restore my drive to the last firmware (good), but this is "Data destructive" (very bad). So they asked me to do a "data backup" without telling how? So, I have again turned to forums, somebody suggested, remove the hard drive from enclosue & connect it either directley using "sata cable" to my PC or by "sata to usb adapter".
I bought a "sata to usb adapter" & connected my hard drive to my PC. It is still not recognised. Windows asking me to "format this drive before using it. My question is, how can I get my data back? Is there any good "data backing utlity"?
I have tried so far, "easeUS", "findandmount" & "recuva" with no success. currentely I am trying "testdisk" but it is still scanning my drive for last 14 hours & finished only 20% so far. Any good solution are more than welcome.
On another note, I personally think that, Lenovo should be held responsible for releasing such a bad firmware update which is detroying their customer's otherwise working drives.
I also believe that, this problem is under reported, because I know at least three friends of mine who also have same problem but they don't have time to report it.
At least, Lenovo should also supply a "data backup utility"
Please help anyone.