Recent content by Howard S

Is this the end of the road using the custom firmware to fix the disk? I've been reading on other posts about removing the HDD and attaching to a PC to use external tools to attempt to rescue the files/lost recordings. In your opinion, is this a lost cause (given the about errors) or is there...

I seem to have got a little bit further by following your advice, but a different error message now: /---------------------------------------------\ | M A I N T E N A N C E M O D E M E N U | \---------------------------------------------/ [ Humax HDR-Fox T2 (humax)...

I progressed from there to messages about the partition table being corrupt, and have ended up back at the maintenance menu. Another attempt at fixdisk has returned me to the same arithmetic syntax error as originally... Running short disk self test Error at LBA 0 Do you wish to attempt repair...

I decided to take the plunge and said 'Y'. Am I stuck in a loop...? Running short disk self test Error at LBA 0 Do you wish to attempt repair of the bad block? [Y/N]: Y /dev/sda: re-writing sector 0: succeeded Running short disk self test Error at LBA 0 Do you wish to attempt repair of the...

Many thanks for the very speedy reply! :-) We have progress with 3.10k: /---------------------------------------------\ | M A I N T E N A N C E M O D E M E N U | \---------------------------------------------/ [ Humax HDR-Fox T2 (humax) 1.03.12/3.10 ] Note: Some...

Hi I'm hoping that someone will be able to give me some guidance with the following issue. I've been reading through the posts on this forum (a wonderful resource btw), but being a Humax/Linux newbie, I'm not sure how to proceed. An elderly relative has asked me to look at his HDR-FOX T2...