Recent content by meridian30

Final summary - first thank you for all your comments, they've been very instructive. Yesterday I removed the drive and gave it a thorough test with Hard Disk Sentinel, and also checked the SMART data. Although the drtive has been in use for at least 7 years it's only been powered on for 932...

Windows won't change a drive in an external box, I've been down this road before. Nor will it insist on formatting the new drive. The manual says, on page 34 under Troubleshooting: a) Check if the USB hard drive is connected for recording purpose. But says nothing else at all about a USB...

I don't do Linux, I'm afraid. And Windows CHKDSK doesn't do any serious clean-up. The spare drive is certified for video use, I've used this model before and had it do 5-6 years before failing, which is good enough. I can extract the dubious drive, stick it in the external drive bay and run...

Mostly it's pixellation when replaying recordings. And I bought it in 2017, and in my experience 7 years is a good age for a hard disk, I usually expect them to be going bad after 5 years, so this is partly a precautionary measure while I don't have too many unwatched recordings. I already...

I think the hard drive in my HDR-1100S is getting flaky, it's 7 years old. I'm happy swapping it over, but can I copy all the recordings across from the old disk to the new one? I have an external drive bay that I can put the two drives into for the copy operation. I know they are encrypted...

I don't have the skills to write one, but I very much appreciated the work done by those who had provided a much better (if unofficial) set of firmware and software for my old FOX T2. No criticism was intended of anyone else, I realise that Humax have made custom firmware more...

On the Fox T2 I'd installed the custom firmware which gave me lots of access to the T2 from my PC. As far as I can tell I can't access a web interface on the 1100S at all. Am I right in assuming there is no custom firmware for the 1100S? Big shame if so. David

We've just moved house and had to change from Freeview to FreeSAT. The old Freeview box has a lot of past episodes we haven't watched yet. The two boxes are connected to a network switch. Is there some way to copy all the recordings from the old Fox T2 to the 1100S, possibly with some...