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/ Hard Disk Drive Error ... what's the best option? DS Forums RegisterFAQToday's PostsSearchRules My DS Account No account yet? Create one now!OR Login with Digital Spy account Hard Disk Drive Error ... what's the best option? Search Forums Show Threads Show Posts Advanced humax hard drive format Search Go to Page... Thread Tools Search this Thread 29-09-2006, 23:21 #1 tomvamos Forum Member humax hard drive replacement Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2 Hard Disk Drive Error ... what's the best option? Sadly, I have recently started to get 'Hard disk drive humax hard drive recorder problems error' on all my recordings effectively rendering my 9200T useless. I've seen a few threads where people mentioned similar problems. Humax support suggested I reformat the HDD as getting the problem fixed back at base could take up to 3 weeks (gulp!). Does
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anyone have any experience of a reformat successfully curing the 'HDD error' problem or should I just get the PVR back to Humax directly? Thanks ... Tom tomvamos View Public Profile Find More Posts by tomvamos Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement. 30-09-2006, 07:34 #2 marcdavis Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 4,520 Quote: Originally Posted by tomvamos Sadly, I have recently started to get 'Hard disk drive error' on all my recordings effectively rendering my humax hdr-1000s hard drive upgrade 9200T useless. I've seen a few threads where people mentioned similar problems. Humax support suggested I reformat the HDD as getting the problem fixed back at base could take up to 3 weeks (gulp!). Does anyone have any experience of a reformat successfully curing the 'HDD error' problem or should I just get the PVR back to Humax directly? Thanks ... Tom A format on the hummy starts a new file table as far as I know. You could connect the disk to your computer and do a full format. I've done that in the past - but only because it was connected and I had just taken a whole load of recordings I needed off it. What might be quicker is to take it to the shop you bought it who might just have a policy of swapping it for a new one under warranty and sending the faulty one back to Humax. Humax could take 21 days to turn this around but some people have found it take about 10 days in total. I guess they are just setting the expectation just in case it takes longer. marcdavis View Public Profile Visit marcdavis's homepage! Find More Posts by marcdavis 30-09-2006, 09:47 #3 CyberSimian Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 364 marcdavis said: "You could connect the disk to your computer and do a full format. I've done that in the past". What file system did you format the disk as? Does the Humax use a standard PC/Linux file syste
Jun '13Posts: 6offline Here's a good way to sort out upgrade and save yourself a load of repair money The email here is an end to end solution for fixing HDD problems To: Administrator
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picture Dear David This would then need to be processed as an out of warranty exchange which would come at a cost
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of £90 for a 320GB model or £100 for a 500GB model. You can try and download the latest software again to your system via the humax beta website http://beta.humaxonline.co.uk/freeview-sd and see if this resolves your issue. Best http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=468575 Regards, Humax Customer Support Response I thought you might be interested in my successful solution to this problem – as you were probably aware I do have some expertise in this area so your help in pointing me at your Humax Beta site and at your recovery tools was a really helpful contribution although the site itself does need a bit of work to bring it into the space of being consumer friendly. What I https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/pvr9300t-fixing-hard-drive did was Use the tool and the serial cable to re-flash the firmware on the 9300T – actually this was not relevant as the issue I had was 100% due to a screwed boot disc sector on a pretty standard WD 320G 3.5 inch SATA Hard Drive – I discovered somewhat later after the Humax was working properly that there is a format utility included – although the forums suggest that this does not work well. Getting no result from re-flashing as I wouldn't have done any case I removed the screwed HDD connected it to my laptop via a SATA USB interface – found that it was detected correctly, and proceeded to run the relevant disk checking and repair utilities from a Windows Partition on my MacBook Pro this link was helpful Seeing all tested out but unable to find a master boot record to repair – I just Fdisked and formatted the disc from the HUMAX to the Etc3 linux format this link is helpful http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/redhat-centos-linux-ext3-filesystem-format- With the disc formatted and reinstalled in the Humax box I turned it on – entered the default password 0000 from the remote control and everything worked fine once again – Result! You have a brilliantly designed unit – first class software – great user interface and a really robust resilient self healing set
1offline I have an HDR-1000s and experienced problems with the original Seagate hard drive. The Humax technician I spoke to came to the conclusion that the hard drive had failed. Rather than throw the unit away, I purchased a WD AV 1TB 3.5" https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/hard-drive-issues SATA Media Hard drive and swapped the two over. The unit can't seem to locate https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/hdd-test-behaviour-error-code-5-before-and-after-reformat.1924/ this drive either, so I'm wondering whether the hard drive was faulty after all. Any suggestions? Sun 22 Nov 2015 16:53:14 #1 | grahamlthompson special memberJoined: Feb '11Posts: 6,757offline Welcome to our forum. A long shot, you may need to fit a jumper to pins 5 and 6 to reduce the data transfer speed. See SATA JUMPER SETTINGS - opt 1 enabled - hard drive here http://support.wdc.com/KnowledgeBase/answer.aspx?ID=5473 If that doesn't work it could be the sata data controller that has failed. Sun 22 Nov 2015 16:58:06 #2 | zoots memberJoined: Oct '13Posts: 18offline My HDR-1010s 1tb box failed too on Wednesday. Switched on and no recordings and unable to pause or record or detect in storage settings. Box was only 2 years and one month old. Just out of the two year guarantee! Contacted Humax who refused to replace. Removed the HDD and replaced humax hard drive with a new identical one but still no response. Waste of time and money but I took that risk. Searched on eBay and this seems to be a common fault on many of these boxes. The SATA controller fails without any prior symptoms. Need to purchase a new box but have lost faith in Humax. Sun 22 Nov 2015 19:21:29 #3 | REPASSAC special memberJoined: Mar '11Posts: 3,078offline zoots - 1 hour ago » My HDR-1010s 1tb box failed too on Wednesday. Switched on and no recordings and unable to pause or record or detect in storage settings. Box was only 2 years and one month old. Just out of the two year guarantee! Contacted Humax who refused to replace. Removed the HDD and replaced with a new identical one but still no response. Waste of time and money but I took that risk. Searched on eBay and this seems to be a common fault on many of these boxes. The SATA controller fails without any prior symptoms. Need to purchase a new box but have lost faith in Humax. I would guess this tis a firmware fault, as hardware failures rates are low parts per millions, (PRM) and we have seen several of these recently. Humax need to address. Sun 22 Nov 2015 20:57:07 #4 | zoots memberJoined: Oct '13Posts: 18offline REPASSAC - What do you suggest, reinstall the firmware? Sun 22 No
2 1 2 Next > Tim Day Member So my hummy (stock 1.02.28) started showing all the signs of file system corruption or drive failure: recent recordings not playable/truncated (older stuff ok), noisy drive while recording - (I'm pretty sure what triggered it was a foolish switching the hummy off with the remote, then almost immediately switching it off at the plug... bad idea: I'd forgotten the hummy seems to like to have a little chunter to itself after a remote off and it's probably not good to interrupt it) Anyway spent ~2 days copying my backlog of trashy teenage vampire movies off to a 1TB external USB drive. Did a HDD Test: Fail with error code 5. Dialog box suggests recovering by a reformat. Reformatted. Then ran the HDD Test again. This is the bit I don't get: it's still reporting error code 5. Things like powering off between the format and the follow-up HDD test don't make any difference, nor does copying something back between formatting and testing. Any ideas what's going on here ? (Seems unlikely error code 5 actually means all's well ???) If error code 5 isn't cleared by a reformat, that suggests it's a real HW problem. Thanks for any advice Tim Tim Day, Jul 26, 2012 #1 MartinLiddle Super Moderator Staff Member Tim Day said: ↑ Any ideas what's going on here ? (Seems unlikely error code 5 actually means all's well ???) If error code 5 isn't cleared by a reformat, that suggests it's a real HW problem.Click to expand... I haven't seen a list of what the error codes mean. It sounds like a hardware problem to me and I suggest you ring Humax and see what they say. Certainly there is no error code if the test passes. MartinLiddle, Jul 26, 2012 #2 Tim Day Member MartinLiddle said: ↑ Certainly there is no error code if the test passes.Click to expand... Thanks for confirming that. Will be call humax tomorrow or Monday... sheesh, this will be our 3rd return in 17 months if this is another dud. (Thankfully still in 2 year warranty). Tim Day, Jul 26, 2012 #3 Tim Day Member Humax support confirmed error 5 is basically hard drive hardware failure... another return. Interestingly they gave me the option of a drive swap, or a replacement unit. (My instinct was "better the devil you know..." and just get the drive fixed. But thinking about it... what if the drive failure is caused by a dodgy PSU or something...) Tim Day, Jul 30, 2012 #4 HarveyB Active Member I'm also getting HDD problems: - CF Disk Diagnost