Image manager

[bbbuk]

It may or may not be HDD. In theory I wouldn't expect your 3 month old HDD to do this but that doesn't mean it's not that. Could be a new faulty HDD. It's a process of elimination. I have seen HDDs fail that are relatively new before albeit it's rare. This would be covered under warranty if it is a faulty HDD.

If you could do: df -mh

That will tell us whether USB or HDD is mounted as sdb1

You can check for errors with the e2fsck command twol mentioned.

Re-initialising it would confirm it too but be aware you would lose everything on the drive you re-initialise.

[Fuzzy]

I have just usb flashed back to 033, used my settings and image manager worked fine. I tried usb flashing to 034 again and it's still fine! Something must have got corrupted and the reflash cured it. Apologies I didn't try this in the first place

Thanks to everyone who tried to help

[abu baniaz]

No need to apologise. Thanks for reporting back.

[twol]

As Abu has said “thanks for responding“ ... makes life easier when you know the outcome!

[Fuzzy]

Update. Same thing happened again after updating from 035 to 036. Image manager hung whilst 'backing up root file system'. I usb flashed 036 and it was fine again.

Thinking about it, the last time it happened was when I upgraded from 033 to 034 and I had to usb re-flash 034

I upgraded from 036 to 037 yesterday and it's ok.