OK, thank you for your reply - at least I know nothing can be done now. However all the notes that I read on this forum led me to believe that fixdisc would not make things worse, but in this case it has.
After a few attempts at running Fixdisk and 40 hours on the final attempt it has now stated it was unsuccessful - please see the attached. The Humax is now showing the hard disc to be empty (it ws nearly full) and wants me to reformat via the Data Storage menu. I would rather not lose what...
prpr,
Thank you - that page was exactly the one I used to guide me through how to use PuTTY and Telnet. It was clear and looking at it again I see that it the first sentence there is the one that you quote above. So my apologies - the note I was asking for is already there. I was simply...
Thanks again Martin. I had a bit of trouble getting Fixdisk started again but it has now been running for well over an hour. It successfully repaired a different sector after 5 minutes and then went back to running the short disk self test so I will leave it to continue.
General Feedback: As...
I am a long time user of Humax and yesterday the Hard Disc crashed. I have now managed to run Fixdisk but it got stuck in a loop. I tried to exit with Ctrl+] but now I dont know what to do. Please help.
Tony
OK, thank you for your reply - at least I know nothing can be done now. However all the notes that I read on this forum led me to believe that fixdisc would not make things worse, but in this case it has.
After a few attempts at running Fixdisk and 40 hours on the final attempt it has now stated it was unsuccessful - please see the attached. The Humax is now showing the hard disc to be empty (it ws nearly full) and wants me to reformat via the Data Storage menu. I would rather not lose what...
prpr,
Thank you - that page was exactly the one I used to guide me through how to use PuTTY and Telnet. It was clear and looking at it again I see that it the first sentence there is the one that you quote above. So my apologies - the note I was asking for is already there. I was simply...
Thanks again Martin. I had a bit of trouble getting Fixdisk started again but it has now been running for well over an hour. It successfully repaired a different sector after 5 minutes and then went back to running the short disk self test so I will leave it to continue.
General Feedback: As...
I am a long time user of Humax and yesterday the Hard Disc crashed. I have now managed to run Fixdisk but it got stuck in a loop. I tried to exit with Ctrl+] but now I dont know what to do. Please help.
Tony
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