Media server gone after v1.0.02 E4200

I have been at this for hours now   I refomatted the drive 2x and had it back once or twice until I transfer some videos and pictures to the drive then its gone.   I have rebooted the router several times and the media server is GONE.   FTP uploads and downloads work fine.  
I noticed a new Twonkey interface in my webrowser in the short while the media server was working.   This is driving me crazy.  
please fix the E4200 media server in .02 firmware

I was also able to reproduce this problem and I also saw that it displayed random letters in the media server webpage when using a San Disk USB. I'll let the engineers know 
I don't work for Cisco. I'm just here to help.

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