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Agreed. Having been without the box for a while and non the wiser as to why it went skitty in the first place, I just did not anything to upset it again having just got it back. Jason

I was somewhat apprehensive having realised after all my efforts there was an auto update overnight. All is well. Phew! Thanks once again, for all the help. Jason

UPDATE! xyz321. What ever "e2fsck -cc -f /dev/sda3" means or does, I have my recordings back! Been at this for days now, but very satisfying to see them all back. Big thanks to all the usual suspects xyz321, blackhole, ezra pound and af123 on this thread and other related threads. Really learnt...

Ran humax# umount /dev/sda3 humax# e2fsck -cc -f /dev/sda3 e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Checking for bad blocks (non-destructive read-write test) Testing with random pattern: done /dev/sda3: Updating bad block inode. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure...

Ran. expected result? humax# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda3 mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 655776 inodes, 2622611 blocks 131130 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data...

further update. Ran again, this time N at create? gave the following. humax# e2fsck /dev/sda2 e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) /dev/sda2 has been mounted 1690 times without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking...

Update. ran e2fsck /dev/sda2 manually and got the following. humax# e2fsck /dev/sda2 e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) /dev/sda2 has been mounted 1690 times without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking...

Followed the link. struggling to get sda2 unmounted. Always coming back busy. Kept at and by luck or otherwise finally arrived at all unmounted. Copied and pasted the modified sed command from the above link. And came back with the following. -------------------------------------------------...

AF123 Thanks for that. WAS configured incorrectly for the job in hand, even though it worked on other levels. Anyway. I am a step closer, responded to the Y, this time it went away for a few seconds and came back with "unrecognised partition type, aborting." Doh! Jason

Hello All My first post so hope I am asking in correct place. Posted here as relates to "fix-disk" mentioned above. Have recently recieved a "need to format disk message" Thought this a bit drastic given the up till then faultless behaviour of my HDR 1TB Have installed CW ending 29. Fine (is a...