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DEphead2004

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What are the odds of me being in the 1%

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 10:12:15 #491 |
Barry

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Not much I suspect given the amount of units sold

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 10:47:00 #492 |
blumsonp

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I've just started getting these 'Not Supported File Format' problems.
I replaced the disk and on startup it started Formatting it. How long should this take on a 500Gb disk? I left it for 30 minutes with no luck.

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 11:59:30 #493 |
Pollensa1946

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I formatted a new 2TB disk, it took maybe 5 to max 10 mins. Uncertain exactly as I walked away and left it to run. 30 mins for a 500GB disk is a problem.

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 12:10:26 #494 |
Martin Liddle

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blumsonp - 1 hour ago »
I replaced the disk and on startup it started Formatting it. How long should this take on a 500Gb disk?

What make and model was the replacement hard drive?

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 13:03:48 #495 |
DEphead2004

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I think the odds of me being in the 1% are almost exactly 1%

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 13:32:48 #496 |
blumsonp

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The HDD was a Seagate that I had salvaged from a failing Humax Youview box. Not sure of the model. It worked fine when attached to a PC. I did remove all partitions. I suppose the problem is probably with the circuit board.

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 14:30:32 #497 |
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blumsonp - 38 minutes ago »
The HDD was a Seagate that I had salvaged from a failing Humax Youview box...

Has it struck you that the failing box was failing due to the failing HDD?
When I replaced the Seagate disk in my 1000S the replacement disk I got from Amazon (the story in full is elsewhere, see below here) was OK on my Windows PC, but would not boot up on the 1000S. I returned it and got a WD disk which was and still is OK.

https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/bye-bye-tivo-is-there-a-humax-box-for-me/page/2#post-58722

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 15:13:20 #498 |
REPASSAC

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DEphead2004 - 2 hours ago »
I think the odds of me being in the 1% are almost exactly 1%

Not quite, from the posts I have seen, none of the failures relate to the early years of manufacture.

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 15:45:45 #499 |
blumsonp

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OK, thanks. I'll try another disk. If it fails to format three different disks then I'll call time on it.

| Mon 14 Aug 2017 16:00:06 #500 |