Recent content by drmaybe

So the most straightforward way is to move the encryption key to the new box. I will try & find out how to do this. Unless of course you would be kind enough to at least point me in the right direction, which would be greatly appreciated. As I said, I am trying to learn in the meantime & if I...

Thank you, I do appreciate your help & support. With regard to the encryption key cloning, I didn't realize that it could work with the disk inside the new box, from your comment: I thought it would only be possible via USB as all I'm trying to do, as I said, is to just move the disk into the...

Yeah... Oops! It's not all of them though so that's something! That's helpful thanks. Where is the /mod folder? Can't seem to find it, still looking though. I only wanted to know how to make a USB backup so that I could make one to use if I knew I that I was doing something that might/would...

I've managed to get hold of another box now & done the tests recommended & all seems to be well with it but I haven't yet installed the 4TB disk into it as yet. I have tried playing back some files from the 4TB disk on the new unit via USB and that works as well, but there are some files that...

Yes, they should be decrypted. So I'm on the lookout for a new box! In the meantime I will just use the 1TB internally & start clearing the 4TB in it's dock! I know you can't say for certain but do you think the 4TB disk could also have any serious faults caused by the problems I've had...

Tried the 4TB again and no dice, exactly the same behaviour as before (restarting/looping after displaying the custom firmware version). Also this morning the box was frozen in standby, with the 1TB disk installed, as it has been for a couple of days. That did 'fix' itself after switching off &...

OK, will give it a go. If things do go wrong again, do you think putting a smaller capacity HDD, maybe a 2 or 3tb would make a difference, assuming the PSU could be struggling with the 4tb? Obviously I'd give it a go (!), but appreciate your opinions as I didn't even consider that to to be a...

OK, that ran OK on the 3 partitions, now I get: /dev/sde1: clean, /dev/sde2: clean & /dev/sde3: clean message with a number of files and blocks for each partition. Is that it completed now, or are there any further steps I should/need to do? Thanks again for your patience up to this point!

That's great, thank you all for your advice, will try this now & get back to you! Edit: OK got Mint running OK and experimenting with it, but to be quite honest a little lost on what commands should be run - would appreciate any guidance on what I shoud be doing to test the disk! I am...

It was only meant as a general what do you think based on symptoms and behaviour type question on first appearances. I know literally nothing about linux, but presumably I could run the command line tools from a virtual machine? Edit adding SMART info:

I installed a 4tb (ST4000VM000) disk in mid 2018 without any issues, but in the last few months my Fox started, occasionally, to not want to start up properly, going into a short loop of displaying the usual Start System then the custom firmware version messages, and then it would restart and...

Current version is 1.03.12 with custom firmware 2.22. I just upgraded to the latest version, is worth downgrading do you think? EDIT: Downgraded & working normally again.. Please accept my apologies, I've just been reading about this issue in the other 1.03.xx thread. :rolleyes: Thanks for...

I recently upgraded my Hummy HDD to 1TB & have noticed that when scrolling through the EPG, it's become very sluggish & slow to respond to commands. It's fine & as quick as it's always been in other menus, scrolling through recorded programmes etc, it's just like treacle in the full screen EPG...

Yeah still showing errors. I was going to upgrade the disk anyway so looks like it's time! Thank you both for your help, much appreciated. :)

OK Thanks for that! Has been running for a few hours now..