We had bad electric storms here in NW Spain last night and our Foxsat HDR became a casualty. Window on front of box shows multicolour gobbledegook and the box is unresponsive both to the remote and the box-face controls.
Two questions:-
1. Can I repair ( or have repaired) the Power Supply, as I assume that it would be 'first to fall'? Alternatively can I fit a replacement?
2. If the box is irreparable can I recover what is on the Hard Drive?
Grateful for some wise comments.
Did you have the custom firmware loaded. If not only SD content can be recovered. A lot depends on how the surge got into the box, if via the lnb coax cables it's likely the tuners are fried.
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re " if via the lnb coax cables it's likely the tuners are fried. " How would I know?
I haven't a clue about the custom firmware.
RayArdia - 12 hours ago »
re " if via the lnb coax cables it's likely the tuners are fried. " How would I know?
I haven't a clue about the custom firmware.
Hard to really tell. As you still have some power only a check of the power supply voltages will tell. You could try booting the box with the lnb cables disconnected, if you get a no signal message then it's likely the lnb has had it.
With regard to your recordings.
SD ones are recorded without encryption so removing the HDD and dropping it into a usb drive cradle you can access the disk and copy the SD recording .ts files from the the Video partition (SDA3).
HD recordings are encrypted with a key unique to your Foxsat. They can only be played back by the box that recorded them.
You will need a PC booted into linux to read the EXT3 file system(you can download linux and install it on usb stick and boot from it) . You may have to change the bios settings to boot from USB.
Alternatively you could try a Windows Linux File System Driver like EXT2FS.
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