1100S: transferring recordings to a new/backup drive

[digitl]

Humax have suggested that I reformat the drive in my 1100S but it holds quite a few recordings.

Checking old posts on here, it appears that recordings cannot be copied off the old drive to be stored on another for transfer back after the format. Is that still the case?

 

[MartinLiddle]

Checking old posts on here, it appears that recordings cannot be copied off the old drive to be stored on another for transfer back after the format. Is that still the case?

I think it can be done by taking the drive out and mounting it on a PC running Linux; I don't think there is any other way.

 

[digitl]

Thanks. I don't have anything running Linux so it looks like it's goodbye to the recordings.

 

[Luke]

Thanks. I don't have anything running Linux so it looks like it's goodbye to the recordings.

You don't have to.
If you have a PC then you can temporarily run Linux on your PC wihout actually installing Linux.
See https://www.pcsuggest.com/best-linux-live-distro/

 

[Black Hole]

A Live Linux boot DVD is a very useful tool in any IT toolbox. Apart from anything else, it bypasses Windows' blindness to file systems not of Microsoft's invention. You might even be able to fix the file system rather than recreating it.

Problems with a PC running Windows? Boot Linux and examine the Windows installation with the assurance that any malware hiding itself when Windows is running can't hide from Linux (especially when clean-booted from read-only media).

 

[digitl]

You don't have to.
If you have a PC then you can temporarily run Linux on your PC wihout actually installing Linux.
See https://www.pcsuggest.com/best-linux-live-distro/

If I go down that route can I copy the files from the Humax hard drive to one of the Windows-formatted hard drives on my PC, and then back again once I've re-formatted the hard drive in the Humax?

 

[Black Hole]

Yes, assuming Linux can read the 1100s's drive at all.

 

[Luke]

Extrapolating from a Gparted boot CD it looks like it would
https://www.burningimage.net/humaxusb/

 

[MartinLiddle]

Yes, assuming Linux can read the 1100s's drive at all.

it can but it uses (I think) an XFS file system rather than the EXT3 used on some other Humax boxes.

 

[NickDawson]

But won't the files be encrypted?

 

[Black Hole]

This is an old thread, but since you ask: the discussion was about temporary safe-keeping of the files while the disk was formatted. The files would be returned thereafter, so it matters not a jot what they are.