My Humax Forum » Freeview SD » PVR 9150T, 9200T, 9300T

9300T - Think i have a major disk problem

(8 posts)
  1. nigel01922

    nigel01922

    junior member
    Joined: Jun '13
    Posts: 7

    offline

    9300T - Version 1.0.0.26 H/D 11.9% left

    Hi all.

    Think i have got a serious disk problem here.

    I had 2 recordings running simultaneosly and was watching a third, when up popped a message on screen saying DISK ERROR - press OK, which i did.

    Now i had this about 5 months ago and knew it would have ended the scheduled recordings.

    So i went into the individual channel and pressed the manual record button. Waited for a couple of minutes then went into the recorded programs list and guess what - no new recording entry for these manual programmes.

    Checked them again and it said they were recording. Pressed the stop button and it showed me 2 programmes recording that were not on any schedules that were listed in these schedules. But i do remember that these programmes were recorded earlier in the year - 5 months earlier.

    I tried the manual recording option again and got exactly the same. So i stopped both programmes.

    I then went into the recorded programmed lists and just scrolled through the recordings. There were 3 listed as 28/05 - the wright way that said they were recording. I know this is not possible and today is 29/10.

    So. i flagged these recordings and pressed delete. At this point the PVR rebooted itself.

    I then went into the recorded programmes list and it is blank. AAARGH! Where my 190 programmes. Also the disk still says 11.9% free.

    I have retuned the box. Also tried recording a new programme and that has appeared as no. 1 on the list and plays ok.

    What has happened to all my lovely recordings and is it possible to recover them as the disk still thinks it is 11.9% free.

    Please help, as some of these recordings go over 12 months with several series not watched.

    Many thanks, upfront.

    | Wed 30 Oct 2013 2:32:15 #1 |
  2. User has not uploaded an avatar

    Martin Liddle

    special member
    Joined: Feb '11
    Posts: 4,617

    offline

    The file system has become corrupt which is a well known problem. The only way to recover the recordings is to open the Humax and attach the hard drive to a PC and use humaxrw in recovery mode.

    | Wed 30 Oct 2013 9:53:40 #2 |
  3. nigel01922

    nigel01922

    junior member
    Joined: Jun '13
    Posts: 7

    offline

    Hi Martin,

    Can you explain how to do this and what cable i would need, as there are a lot of usb to sata connectors.

    | Wed 30 Oct 2013 20:22:23 #3 |
  4. User has not uploaded an avatar

    Martin Liddle

    special member
    Joined: Feb '11
    Posts: 4,617

    offline

    nigel01922 - 2 hours ago  » 
    Can you explain how to do this and what cable i would need, as there are a lot of usb to sata connectors.

    Any USB to SATA converter should be OK or if you have a desktop PC you could connect it to a spare SATA connector temporarily. You need to download humaxrw from Link to humaxrw download. You connect the drive to the PC NB don't let Windows initialise the disk when it notices it. Copy humaxrw.exe to a directory immediately below root eg C:\humax.

    Start a command prompt (NB if this a recent version of Windows you need to run the command prompt with Administrative privileges.

    At the command prompt type:

    C:\
    cd humax
    humaxrw 2: -r -l

    With luck this will provide a list of programs. If not try changing the 2: eg 3:, 4: etc until you find the correct drive number. Note that because the record list has been lost the files will be named recover_0010.ts etc. When you have the correct drive number then to copy recover_0010ts file to the PC try

    humaxrw 2: -r -g 10

    The readme.txt file that comes with humaxrw will give more information. Let us know how you get on. Good luck.

    | Wed 30 Oct 2013 22:53:30 #4 |
  5. nigel01922

    nigel01922

    junior member
    Joined: Jun '13
    Posts: 7

    offline

    Hi Martin,

    You say any USB to SATA Converter, but do you mean one with power like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-2-0-TO-SATA-IDE-HARD-DRIVE-CD-ROM-LEAD-CORD-FR-HDD-POWER-ADAPTER-CONVERTER-/390676707586?pt=UK_Computing_Drive_Cables_Adapters&hash=item5af6257902

    | Wed 30 Oct 2013 23:30:43 #5 |
  6. nigel01922

    nigel01922

    junior member
    Joined: Jun '13
    Posts: 7

    offline

    Also, why do you have to run it from C: root, couldnt i use my larger drive E: as it is 1TB

    | Wed 30 Oct 2013 23:32:51 #6 |
  7. User has not uploaded an avatar

    Martin Liddle

    special member
    Joined: Feb '11
    Posts: 4,617

    offline

    nigel01922 - 1 hour ago  » 
    You say any USB to SATA Converter, but do you mean one with power like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-2-0-TO-SATA-IDE-HARD-DRIVE-CD-ROM-LEAD-CORD-FR-HDD-POWER-ADAPTER-CONVERTER-/390676707586?pt=UK_Computing_Drive_Cables_Adapters&hash=item5af6257902

    One with a power supply is a safer option; if you use the Humax to power the drive it is very easy to touch the power supply and destroy it.

    | Thu 31 Oct 2013 1:03:39 #7 |
  8. User has not uploaded an avatar

    Martin Liddle

    special member
    Joined: Feb '11
    Posts: 4,617

    offline

    nigel01922 - 1 hour ago  » 
    Also, why do you have to run it from C: root, couldnt i use my larger drive E: as it is 1TB

    Use any drive you want. I didn't say you had to use C:, my example specifically says eg.

    | Thu 31 Oct 2013 1:04:51 #8 |

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.