Is my hard drive near the end of its life?

[Nick Lappage]

Hi all.

The forums have been very useful in helping me stop the constant delete mode, but I seem to have another error which I'm struggling to fix. Basically all my recordings vanished last night with just a few empty folders. I reverted the machine back to an old version of firmware and then upgraded to the latest Humax version.

This brought back the missing recordings for some reason.

I then decided to install the latest custom firmware - HDR_FOX_T2_1.03.11_mod_2.22 and run diagnostics from my PC, which resulted in the following:


I then went into the Telnet to run the check and fix option, where it recognised errors but continually failed to fix them.

So I went back to normal operation mode and then I found the message on the TV saying that I had to format the hard drive or I wouldn't be able to record anything. I also wasn't able to playback anything - the HDD reported that it was full even though there should have have been 800GB available.

So, grudgingly, I formatted the HDD and lost my recordings, but I still get the errors above and Telnet's check/fix disc still fails.

Any ideas?

Nick

 

[Ezra Pound]

Raw values above zero in ID 5 are not normally a problem until they reach hundreds / thousands, however any raw values above zero against IDs 197 and 198 are bad news. I would say your hard disk is dead or not long for this world, i.e. dying

 

[Nick Lappage]

Okay thanks Ezra. I've still got it under warranty so I'm off to Humax support to see about a replacement one - or perhaps the new YouView type...

 

[Ezra Pound]

It's completely up to you what you replace it with, but, depending what you want your Humax to do, I would check what the YouView box can and can't do. The advantages are more catch-up TV services and the disadvantages are many (See link HERE), this list was complied some time ago, but most of the 'NOs' are still the same

 

[Nick Lappage]

Okay thanks. I'll check some more.

 

[MontysEvilTwin]

Your disc is on the way out, but before binning it you could try a security erase. Another poster managed to fix similar problems doing this: http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/fix-d...-unrecognised-partition-type.4579/#post-58050. Your reallocated sector count won't get any smaller, but it is not critical yet and you might get a few more months out of it.