Hi
In common with a few folks here my Hummy has died due to HDD failure/corruption. I had this problem previous on my old 9200 and it was quickly and easily solved by pulling the disk, attaching it to an IDE port on my old PC and running humaxrw to retrieve the recordings.
No such joy this time though. Firstly I've bought a SATA to USB interface and have got that rigged up ok I think. I can see the hummy HDD in Device Manager (obviously it doesn't show up in Explorer).
However, running the command 'humaxrw 1: -r -l' just returns a 'Permission denied' error. I'm doing this via a command prompt using 'run as administrator', under Win7.
Changing the drive number doesn't work, I get 'partition not found' in that case.
I've used the Windows Front End for humaxrw programe and on running that I get a 'humax drive not automatically detected - is it connected?' error (or words to that effect).
To be honest I don't care about the recordings on the disk and if I could just find an easy way to format it and stick it back in the device I'd be happy. But I can't find anything that does formatting so don't know where to start there, and by the look of it I'd just be 'denied permission' anyway.
Can anyone suggest anything helpful to try please before I throw the whole shebang in a skip and find a more reliable manufacturer?
Many thanks!
