Two Humax boxes
Old box: Youview Humax box from BT (I think DTR 2000).
New box: Humax FVP-5000T.
The old box became very slow. Sometimes taking several minutes to do anything. I went for the FVP-5000T as a replacement for what I thought was a failing box. I now use the new FVP-5000T for any new recordings and the old DTR 2000 for watching existing recordings. Usually I delete the watched recordings on the DTR 2000, however, I have a couple of recordings on the old disk which I would like to keep for ever.
Is there any way of archiving recordings from the DTR 2000 onto the new Humax or to a PC?
I noticed something else. As I deleted watched recordings from the DTR-2000, the delay before it did something, became less and less. Now with over 58% available space on the old machine there seems to be little noticable delay. As an ex IT professional I perceived that the problem with the old box looked like one of fragmented files on the hard disk.
In my IT days, if there was a delay in reading from a disk I would probably have identified fragmentation and have copied all the files from disk to archive onto a different disk. I would then have re-formatted the original disk and written the files back again. That usually cured the problem.
So I need to achieve archiving again, this time for resolving fragmentation. Can it be achieved easily?
In the event that the old hard disk fails completely, can the backup recording be played or will it be stopped by any protection mechanism?
Old box: Youview Humax box from BT (I think DTR 2000).
New box: Humax FVP-5000T.
The old box became very slow. Sometimes taking several minutes to do anything. I went for the FVP-5000T as a replacement for what I thought was a failing box. I now use the new FVP-5000T for any new recordings and the old DTR 2000 for watching existing recordings. Usually I delete the watched recordings on the DTR 2000, however, I have a couple of recordings on the old disk which I would like to keep for ever.
Is there any way of archiving recordings from the DTR 2000 onto the new Humax or to a PC?
I noticed something else. As I deleted watched recordings from the DTR-2000, the delay before it did something, became less and less. Now with over 58% available space on the old machine there seems to be little noticable delay. As an ex IT professional I perceived that the problem with the old box looked like one of fragmented files on the hard disk.
In my IT days, if there was a delay in reading from a disk I would probably have identified fragmentation and have copied all the files from disk to archive onto a different disk. I would then have re-formatted the original disk and written the files back again. That usually cured the problem.
So I need to achieve archiving again, this time for resolving fragmentation. Can it be achieved easily?
In the event that the old hard disk fails completely, can the backup recording be played or will it be stopped by any protection mechanism?