Recent content by Penster

I've read through this and would like to know which if the drive specifications are mandatory and which are advised? I would, if possible, like to use a solid state HDD and I'd like a capacity of 1TB although 500Mb would work as it took me over 10 years to nearly fill up the last drive! I'm not...

Having restarted the box, I've deleted any scheduled recordings and it seems I have no access to the HDD, so it looks like it's done the catastrophic fail already. Quite sad, because I had lots recorded that I liked to revisit. Thank you for your help. How do I obtain a new disk and is it...

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 078 077 006 Pre-fail Always - 8552471 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 095 095 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4...

I would give you a copy of the output, but it keeps telling me that "You are not allowed to post external links yet." when I copy and paste the results here. I really am bad at this tech stuff...

And before I go to the command line and type the command "smartctl -a /dev/sda", should I cancel the disk repair?

Is the command prompt the "Please select option:" bit when I reconnect and get the "Maintenance Mode Menu"?

So, fixdisk has been running for 2 days now. This morning when I reconnected, it was cycling and the numbers were changing: Error at LBA 1384207668 /dev/sda: re-writing sector...

I've got a round one somewhere, but I've not found it useful at all :p

I have an internet cable between the back of my box and my laptop (for my reference, it's the long one). I am using a Google Chrome browser. I typed in the IP address that I found Menu >> Settings >> System >> Internet Setting >> Configure LAN (Wi-Fi) >> IP Address into the browser. Somehow it...

Thank you for the heads up. It's currently finding errors and rewriting sectors... one by one.

Thank you both @Black Hole & @prpr. I managed to get into the telnet menu and I'm currently running fixdisk which found something wrong in the short test and has now started the long disk self test. I may not be awake when it completes, so watch this space in the morning. Menu version 1.23...

Please help. I've spent this morning reading many of the advice threads about being stuck on deleting / deleting loop which it seems my HDR-FOX-T2 has typical symptoms: "* Deleting" is constant when looking at the media list. There is no record action, even though the screen says it is...