pomwombat
New Member
Hi all,
I'm new here, gradually evolving the family PVR environment from a Toppy with MyStuff over to a Fox T2 with customised firmware, but I'm only partly into the process...
Our HDR Fox T2 was running a little strangely last night... playback was suddenly very jerky, and the box was extremely slow to respond to the remote - even minutes to change a channel. I stopped playback, but I couldn't just power down, as a recording was in progress.
When, eventually, I could put the box into a proper shutdown, followed by a power cycle, it came back indicating that the HDD needs reformatting. No space available, no space used, and no recordings.
I'd rather make an attempt to recover the recordings, so I wanted to check what my options are nowadays, before I started fiddling with it. I found an old thread on this subject from 2 years ago, but I figure things may have changed a little.
It is a 1TB box, about 4 months old and still in warranty. I bought it with the intention of putting the custom firmware on, but only after I was sure it was going to keep working for a while - so the custom firmware isn't there yet.
As far as I can see, my options are:
- To try the standard Humax settings option to test the HDD
- To install the custom firmware, and use the "fix-disk" utility
- To take the HDD out, put it into a PC and use standard Linux HDD tools to recover things
- To give up, and re-format.
Am I missing anything there?
I'm erring towards the option of installing the custom firmware, and using the "fix-disk" utility. Is that an option for me, given that there won't be a disk available for any package manipulation?
Cheers
I'm new here, gradually evolving the family PVR environment from a Toppy with MyStuff over to a Fox T2 with customised firmware, but I'm only partly into the process...
Our HDR Fox T2 was running a little strangely last night... playback was suddenly very jerky, and the box was extremely slow to respond to the remote - even minutes to change a channel. I stopped playback, but I couldn't just power down, as a recording was in progress.
When, eventually, I could put the box into a proper shutdown, followed by a power cycle, it came back indicating that the HDD needs reformatting. No space available, no space used, and no recordings.
I'd rather make an attempt to recover the recordings, so I wanted to check what my options are nowadays, before I started fiddling with it. I found an old thread on this subject from 2 years ago, but I figure things may have changed a little.
It is a 1TB box, about 4 months old and still in warranty. I bought it with the intention of putting the custom firmware on, but only after I was sure it was going to keep working for a while - so the custom firmware isn't there yet.
As far as I can see, my options are:
- To try the standard Humax settings option to test the HDD
- To install the custom firmware, and use the "fix-disk" utility
- To take the HDD out, put it into a PC and use standard Linux HDD tools to recover things
- To give up, and re-format.
Am I missing anything there?
I'm erring towards the option of installing the custom firmware, and using the "fix-disk" utility. Is that an option for me, given that there won't be a disk available for any package manipulation?
Cheers