Hi, I'm after some ideas as I'm all out of them.
I have a friends FVP-5000T where all recordings have disappeared. Recording menu shows no recordings, HDD indicator is greyed out with nothing showing where hours remaining once were. Anything to do with recording or timeslip fails.
I assumed the HDD had died but when I plugged the (ST500VM) into a Debian (Linux based) machine I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to mount all 4 partitions. I copied all her recording onto another drive just in case the drive was playing up.
Back to the PVR: I installed an unused WD Green 1TB I had sitting around still sealed. Sadly there was no change in the PVRs behaviour. The format PVR option was not available (with the new or old drive).
I then downgraded the firmware from 103.54 to 103.53 from the Humax site just in case something was corrupted, again no joy so I allowed it to re-upgrade over LAN afterwards.
Oh I also tried factory reset with format HDD but as the PVR doesn't seem to see the HDD so no formatting took place. The drive does spin up however.
I don't know what else to try. If anyone has any suggestions, please suggest away. I see the HDR1000S had a problem with a resistor, but I haven't found anything similar here regarding the 5000T that wasn't cured with a reboot.
I have to say I'm pleased that the files were in a normal EXT partiton. Other manufacturers' PVRs that I've encountered seem to use strange block sizes for their partitions making them unmountable by me.
If I have no luck getting the PVR to recognise an internal drive, she can at least watch what she has recorded via an external drive. I'm unsure if her HD recordings will work that way though?
Thanks for your help.
Best wishes.