Recent content by Dandemcd

Thanks for your help Black Hole - I am hoping to retain your attention a bit longer because I am now in completely uncharted territory for me. Before your most recent comments about Linux I had attempted to find relevant software to run under Windows and came across Ext2Fsd which seems well...

Thanks all. I didn't think of booting up with Linux but I did manage to connect the drive to my PC ( no sign of it in the "Computer" option ) and I currently have some disc recovery software scanning it and the FAT version has found many files. Not sure what to do next in that regard. I have...

I took the disc out and went to a local computing shop. They connected it to a PC and it started up. Their disc management software could see 3 partitions totalling the 1 TB, said each was healthy but failed to see any data content. Our conclusion is that the software in question was simply...

thanks - screwdriver required a bit later on !!

... just to add to the tale, I found how to get into maintenance mode via telnet and on attempting to use the check and fix disc option I get the message "no disc found". I can hear and faintly feel something whirring shortly after switch on - could that be a fan and could power to the disc have...

Is there any way to try to fix an HDD which has, in effect, disappeared ? I tried a factory reset but that achieved nothing. I don't want to reformat the disc ( years of recordings and children's favourites). I don't currently have custom firmware. Trouble started last night when recording was...