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FYI I found an earlier set of SMART results. I recorded this on Monday 15 June, 2 days earlier than the dump above. I don't know if it will provide an interesting comparison. humax# smartctl -a /dev/sdb...

SMART results: humax# smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109...

Thanks everyone for your contributions. I've searched the forum for 'error at LBA 0' and learned a little more. I had started copying stuff off the drive but had not got everything I wanted. This is the excuse I've needed to bite the bullet and delve into linux via testdisk.

I left the T2 successfully re-writing sectors and counting down as previously, but I returned a few hours later to find the following output filling the buffer. The waiting time re starts at 131042 every time. Running select disk self test...

I'll try fixdisk -l -y one last time: this may take several days. If this doesn't work, I'll replace the disk but hang on to it until I get myself a linux machine and i'll experiment with testdisk as a side project. fixdisk is finding a lot of errors and seemingly many sequentially: Please...

Unfortunately, I don't have a linux machine spare. Is there any reason I shouldn't run e2fsck -f -c -c -k -y from cli on the T2 itself?

From cold start I get the message: The HDD storage must be formatted to use recording functions. Press OK to go to the Data Storage menu. Pressing OK takes you to the data storage screen with 3 options: Storage HDD Test Format Storage Available, Used and Reserved size are 0.0GB

I was getting stuck in the deleting loop, so I ran fixdisk -y and got many errors. I also ran fix-disk -P from cli but it terminated with error status 1. Force rewrite? yes...