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cat lady – 2 hours ago »
I have read some other posts about people having problems with new hard drives – is there anything I need to look out for? Should it be a particular spec?
I don’t see any evidence at the moment that your drive needs replacement. At worst it might need formatting on the PC to force the Humax to format it.
If you were to decide to fit a new drive then ideally it needs to be a drive designed for PVR usage. If you use a drive designed for general PC usage you run the risk of stuttering play back. Something like this would be suitable Link to span.com
cat lady – 7 minutes ago »
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
I don’t have a Windows 7 box in front of me but you need to do something like work through from the start button to find the Command prompt and then rather than left clicking it , right click and select “run with administrative privileges”.
cat lady – 17 minutes ago »
Removed disc from humax and installed in a usb 2.0 caddy. Downloaded humax check and r/w utilities. Ran as administrator from a cmd line. Tried drives 0:, 1: and 2:- all of which say permission denied. Drives 2: through 9: give no such file or directory.
It sounds to me as though you are running as an administrator but not with administrative privileges. What version of Windows are you using?
cat lady – 16 hours ago »
Yes, I can connect the drive to my Windows computer although I will have to get an adaptor. Once I’ve connected it, what do I do then?
down load Humaxrw from https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/humaxrw (links are at the bottom of the post).
Open a command prompt with administrative privileges and the type the command:
humaxrw 1: -l
Note that is humaxrw numeric one colon space dash lower case L.
If that does not produce a list of files then try
humaxrw 2: -l
incrementing the number until you get a list of files (Typicaly it will be in the range (2 to
but it depends on the exact configuration of your PC.Once you have got a list of files, issue the command
humaxrw x: -Z
substituting the number you found above for x. This command deletes the cached epg data which might be your problem.
Replace the drive in the Humax and see if it now works. If it doesn’t then the best way forward is to copy off all the files using humaxrw and then format the drive and then copy the files back. There is a recent detailed explanation of how to do this in this thread https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/restoring-recordings-and-list-to-humax-pvr-9200t
retepfb – 1 hour ago »
Could not get ts2hrw to run as could not find the arguments needed, this was to check for corrupted files before kicking off the copy to PC.
That isn’t the purpose of ts2hrw. Its purpose is having used recovery mode to copy files from the Humax to a PC to recreate .hre files on the PC so that recordings can subsequently be copied back to the Humax.
retepfb – 28 minutes ago »
The copy process stopped after 5 recordings (20 files).
-l shows 88 recordings which was same as Humax list.
-i only shows details of 9 recordings.
Placed disc back into Humax and removed any file that had a lock/protect and found one that had a green no entry sign on it. found that to be half of a recording. Only way to delete was to select it first then delete.
Cleared all copied files from PC and started the copy again using -g 20,23-26.
Again stopped after 5 recordings/20 files. The recording numbers are quite random in the copy process.
It does sound as though the file system is quite badly damaged.
Should I try -b to copy all files from humax disc to pc?
Too long since I used humaxrw for me to offer useful advice beyond try it and see.
cat lady – 2 hours ago »
Have disconnected the disc via the SATA cable at the motherboard end and now have control. I’ve been able to reset to default settings and when the aerial is in, tv stations can be accessed.
Good that demonstrates the box itself is OK.
When I reconnected the SATA cable with the aerial disconnected I could see my recordings listed, however when I tried to play them the box went back into its reboot cycle.
Not so good.
After recovery, the disc was found to be 100% full so I deleted a couple of programmes, but it hasn’t made any difference – I still can’t play back any recordings. Also with aerial and disc connected at the same time, I can’t watch the tv either – it just goes back to rebooting.
Has the disc become corrupted? Any ideas?
It is hard to be sure. There is a known problem where the file used to cache the TV guide becomes corrupt. If you are prepared to connect the Humax drive to a Windows (or Linux) computer (using a USB to SATA adaptor or a USB Drive caddy) you may be able to fix the problem or to download your recordings to the PC and with luck copy them back to the Humax after formatting the drive.
retepfb – 5 hours ago »
Have tried to access the drive using both humaxrw and humaxcheck but not working. It is connected via a USB caddy and would be 3rd hard drive, do these programs only work when connected directly to a sata port on the PC?
A USB caddy should be OK. If you are running under later versions of Windows you need to start humaxrw from a command prompt that has administrative privileges. IF you don’t know how to do this please advise what version of Windows you are using.
cat lady – 23 minutes ago »
Thanks for that – I have now tried unplugging the aerial but it’s still doing the same thing. Whilst switched on it’s constantly rebooting and I have no control.
Is there anything else I can try?
If you are prepared to open the box yes. The next thing to try would be to disconnecting the hard drive and see if when powered up without a hard drive the box doesn’t reboot. NB only do anything inside the box with the box disconnected from the mains supply.
cat lady – 1 hour ago »
I have a PVR9300T which has worked fine until recently. It is now seemingly stuck in a cycle of constantly rebooting. When switched on it displays the model number on the box and loader application a4.40 appears on the tv screen as normal. Once loaded it briefly flashes on to ‘please wait’, then the name of the tv channel appears on the box, the tv screen goes black and the box immediately reboots and the whole cycle starts again.
After reading some similar posts, I’ve tried switching off and on as well as unplugging the box for an extended period. It still won’t stop rebooting.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Have you tried unplugging the aerial and booting the box up with the aerial not connected. If that gives you control then do a reset to default settings. Then put the box into standby, turn off the power, connect the aerial, wait for 10 seconds and start the box again. If it now boots normally do another reset to default settings.
BlackGhost – 1 minute ago »
It doesn’t seem to get the information and keep hold of it though – I had trouble getting a programme to show up in the EPG, eventually got it to populate and set it to record – I then went back into the guide and it had lost the programme info again
Getting and losing the guide like that is usually a sign that the box is receiving from more than one transmitter.
Minstrel SE – 48 minutes ago »
I dont know if this is the right section to post in but I wondered if anybody can shed some light on my DVB T2 PSB3 reception problems?
Could you tell us what the signal strength and quality is (as reported by the Humax) when the box is showing a channel from PSB3?
grahamlthompson – 1 hour ago »
How does that work when the file in question is a fixed size one constantly being overwritten.
The file system thinks it is writing to the same block but at a lower level the controller keeps a map between the physical blocks and the logical blocks seen by the file system. Potentially each time the logical block is written to, the controller chooses a different physical block. Also most modern controllers will periodically move static data around to ensure the number of writes per block is roughly the same.
grahamlthompson – 13 minutes ago »
I would though be a bit wary of using a SSD because of the constant writing and re-writing of the time shift buffer file.
That is incorrect; the controller on the SSD will spread the wear across the drive. A Samsung Evo SSD is rated at 40GB a day for a least 3 years and a Samsung Pro will do 40GB a day for 5 years.
Faust – 52 minutes ago »
I have now found the culprit. Kaspersky AV does not like Humax forum with Chrome.
I am running Kaspersky Internet Security 2017 with no problem accessing MyHumax.
