Greetings!
Could anybody help me out? Having suffered the old disappearing recording list trick once more on my 9200
t, I thought this time I might not take it lying down, and have a go at rescuing the recordings using the HumaxRW utility.
I managed to locate the FAQ posting here
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/humaxrw
with the download links.
I have a USB/IDE adapter to hand, and this is my general understanding of the process:
1. Extract disk from Humax.
2. Copy ts and hre files from the Humax disk as it currently is, onto an external USB drive.
3. Regenerate the recording list 'table of contents' from this copied data.
4. Return disk to Humax in order to format it.
5. Extract disk from Humax again in order to copy ts, hre and new table of contents onto the newly formatted disk.
6. Return disk to Humax and experience great joy at successful completion of procedure.
It is stage 3 that I have queries about: recreating the table of contents, i.e., the list of programs that I would expect to see in 'Recorded Programmes'. I have a strong suspicion that this step is not as straightforward as I am hoping.
As far as I understand it, the list of programmes is normally created by the Humax box by assembling together all the individual hre files, one for each recording. The list of programmes is lost when a 'table of contents' file is corrupted upon a hardware crash (perhaps being 'locked open', as in some Windows problems?)
My first question: is HumaxRW actually able to regenerate this alleged table of contents file automatically, by polling all the hre files in turn, or is it a process that has to be done manually?
Another issue is, will a newly created 'recordings list' still feature the correct titles, and the dates and times of the original recordings, or will they just be labelled with automatically generated names, and given the current date and time? If it is this second 'worst case' scenario, then it might make it more trouble than it is worth, if all the salvaged recordings are in a random order?
Finally, is there a definitive documented version of the process I outline in the steps above, as I am currently just guessing, and assume that I will now need to work through any documentation that is available. If anybody could be so kind as to point me in the right direction to a tried and tested procedure, that would be immensely helpful.
If I am making any incorrect assumptions in the scribblings above, please could you also point out where I would be going wrong?
Thanks very much for any assistance offered.
Regards