External E-Sata Drive Issues

I have WD My DVD External E-Sata drives attached to my set top box. They work fine for a while, then programs that I delete are still in the list but are marked as deleted and no longer available.
Has anyone experienced this issue? Is there a work around or another hard drive that someone has experience with that has not seen this issue?
Thanks

KY_WD wrote:
Hi again,
Can you tell me what model is your set top box? Also, could you, please, attach the WD external device to PC and also try to perform deleting operations to whether everything is working fine?
KY_WD
The formatting done by the VZ DVR is NOT readable on a PC so there is no value in connecting it to one.
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