zoots - 2 days ago »
My HDR-1010s 1tb box failed too on Wednesday. Switched on and no recordings and unable to pause or record or detect in storage settings. Box was only 2 years and one month old. Just out of the two year guarantee! Contacted Humax who refused to replace. Removed the HDD and replaced with a new identical one but still no response. Waste of time and money but I took that risk. Searched on eBay and this seems to be a common fault on many of these boxes. The SATA controller fails without any prior symptoms. Need to purchase a new box but have lost faith in Humax.
Exactly the same problem with mine, 2 months out of its warranty and exactly the same response from Humax.
Have read back through all the threads here about hard drive problems and possible ways to remedy the situation ie going into standby/ powering off/ leaving 10 minutes etc etc.
For me, none worked and I suspected there was absolutely nothing wrong with the hard drive, connected it up to my PC and ran seatools for windows, drive tested ok, was also able to install it into a friend's HDR1000 temporarily, was instantly recognised.
I would suspect that there's a problem with the sata data controller on the board which seems to be more and more commonplace, I dread to think how many people have probably paid out good money to replace perfectly good hard drives in error.
Not the first time I've had a Humax product fail, last year my HDR Fox T2 gave up the ghost just 3 months out of warranty again a suspected motherboard fault.
