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Recorded programs not shown; being recorded over

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    gerry7

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    My Humax PVR has been misbehaving for some time, then slowly getting worse.
    At first it would not record programmes although there was space on the disc. When I increased the space to above 25% it did record, but not everything. A week or so ago, it started recording over random pre-recorded programmes that I wanted to save. As of yesterday no pre-recorded programmes are shown on the menu. The available disc space is shown as 28%, so presumably the pre-recorded programmes are there somewhere.
    Software update shows no available updates.
    Help please.

    | Wed 27 Jul 2016 9:47:30 #1 |
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    Martin Liddle

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    gerry7 - 1 hour ago  » 
    At first it would not record programmes although there was space on the disc. When I increased the space to above 25% it did record, but not everything. A week or so ago, it started recording over random pre-recorded programmes that I wanted to save. As of yesterday no pre-recorded programmes are shown on the menu. The available disc space is shown as 28%, so presumably the pre-recorded programmes are there somewhere.

    You have described the classic symptoms of the file system gradually getting confused. The fix is to format the drive from the HDD Control menu item in the record menu.

    | Wed 27 Jul 2016 11:04:55 #2 |
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    gerry7

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    Many thanks. I was afraid that that might be the answer, I will lose some cherished programmes.

    | Wed 27 Jul 2016 15:30:57 #3 |
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    gerry7 - 2 hours ago  » 
    Many thanks. I was afraid that that might be the answer, I will lose some cherished programmes.

    If you really want to keep them and are prepared to open up the Humax then they can probably be recovered using humaxrw in recovery mode.

    | Wed 27 Jul 2016 18:08:50 #4 |
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    I have the same problem, but Humax Customer Support advised default setting (which didn't work) - no mention of formatting the HDD.

    | Tue 13 Sep 2016 20:35:20 #5 |
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    If I format the HDD, do I then follow the Quick Start Guide? Sorry to be not at all technical.

    | Tue 13 Sep 2016 21:33:19 #6 |
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    Bonnybabs - 43 minutes ago  » 
    If I format the HDD, do I then follow the Quick Start Guide? Sorry to be not at all technical.

    Use the HDD Control menu item in the Record menu. Default PIN is 0000.

    | Tue 13 Sep 2016 22:17:20 #7 |
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    Apologies for not making myself clear. I understand how to format the HDD. I just need to know how to proceed afterwards. Thank you for replying.

    | Tue 13 Sep 2016 22:26:53 #8 |
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    Bonnybabs - 9 hours ago  » 
    I understand how to format the HDD. I just need to know how to proceed afterwards.

    As you have already done a reset to default settings then I don't think there is anything else to do.

    | Wed 14 Sep 2016 8:22:07 #9 |

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