sorry for the delay,
There are different ways to achieve this
one would be to plug the drive back into the HD-FoxT2, put custom firmware on it, mount it over the network to your pc and if you still have write problems you can telnet onto the Humax and check permissions, easy if you know how, difficult to explain step by step.
Almost as fiddly, boot into a live Linux distribution, either from CD/DVD or usb stick, something like Ubuntu and all will be revealed. If you're interested in such stuff it's well worthwhile doing, again easy once you know how.
I'm guessing you want the windows option and I'm not sure why it doesn't work on the PC
plug the drive in, start Ext2 volume manager, change the write settings as described above, load and refresh, click on the disk, right click and change drive letter, add a mount point, done, load and refresh, refresh the view in windows explorer.
This works fine on my PC, no problems writing to it.
If you still have problems writing to it then it may have been uncleanly unmounted, i.e. pulled out from the Humax while files were still open on the disk. This can be checked again via custom firmware or booting a live linux distribution, or what may be easier, plug the drive back into the Humax, start it up, record something for a minute or so just to make sure you can, shut down the Humax and remove the drive, this should prove it's writeable and leave it cleanly uunmounted. If this still doesn't work, then I assume you have copied everything off the drive, it may be easier to copy anything you want to the PC, plug it back into the Humax and reformat it.
If you don't have the space to copy off or have TB's of data that'll take for ever then the custom firmware or live linux route would be easiest.
My guess is that it's stuck on the Ext2 volume manager as it's not the most intuitive of programs
The other consideration is vista which has to be the worst OS ever, I can say this as I've never tried ME, but it's worse than win8 which is saying something, let's hope the 8.1 available in a few days puts that right.
I've not tried this in vista and I shudder to think about it, you may have to right click on Ext2 volume manager before starting it and start in administrator mode, just a thought.
Let us know how you get on, good luck
| Wed 16 Oct 2013 13:59:12
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