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andy96j – 10 hours ago »
Can’t find the diagnostics menu to try the RTM setting. I guess I need to install the web interface. I have now connected to the router and can access the tv portal menu now.
So have you attempted to point your web browser at the Humax?
tallpaul – 24 minutes ago »
I am new to forums but desperation brings me to try to find what to do.
My question is will formating the disc sort this out and will I lose all my recordings.
Formatting is the only action that will resolve the later problem (the problem you describe first sounds like a known issue with the 9150/9300). Formatting the disk will delete all recordings. Note that if you take no action then the next step is that all recordings will vanish from the recorded list.
Clair – 19 hours ago »
A Directory is just a folder, yes?
Yes. I use various operating systems and they use different terminology for what is the same thing.
I right-clicked and selected new folder.
The command prompt begins c:windowssystem32> – is that correct?
Do yourself a favour; delete that directory and make a new one immediacy below the root of the drive so that the command prompt starts c:
john080347 – 15 hours ago »
FenderBender, the disc was purchased from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00151U4DG/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Ring up Amazon customer services and explain the situation. I would be pretty confident they will arrange for another drive to be sent. As you say with old drives it is luck of the draw so just keep persisting until they send you one that works properly.
Clair – 2 hours ago »
I have downloaded humaxrw (but was unsure if I need to save it somewhere specific).
The easiest thing to do is to put it in the directory you have created for the files from the Humax.
Created a directory for humaxrwdir – initially I did this on my external hard drive but have also tried on the C:
But when I type cd humaxrwdir at the command prompt all I get is “The system cannot find the path specified”.
If you have created the directory immediately below the root of the file system then that should work fine. How did you create the directory?
andy96j – 8 hours ago »
My next questions are:
1)Will a manual update affect the custom firmware?
Yes.
2)How confident can you be that the fault is not being caused by the custom firmware in my case?
Very confident.
3)Shall I restore the T2 to RTM just to prove its not the custom firmware?
Your call but I would be very surprised if it made a difference.
4)Are the programs/hard drive wiped when a RTM is done?
No.
wacka – 1 hour ago »
Can I link the machines together or do I have to take the HDD out of the 9200T & transfer the data to my PC & then over to the 9300T ?
You will have to take the hard drives out of both boxes and I have no idea if it will work as tere have been reported problems copying to a 9300 however there was a recent report of somebody who had copied programs off a 9300 and then managed to replace them after a format. Good luck; let us know how it works out.
optics42 – 1 hour ago »
>>How did you detect the 60GB of orphaned chains?
I put the HDD on the XP bus and ran humaxchech.exe which gave me 2 sets of 11 digit numbers (24,… and 53,…) listed as the bytes taken up by orphan chains, but no more information that I could correlate with the information in the humaxcheck help file.
OK that makes sense and it does sound as though the file system was pretty confused. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were no recordings visible but I would still expect the Humax to recognise the disk. Anyway if Seatools thinks the disk is healthy then you have a good chance of the disk lasting for some time to come.
Barry – 1 hour ago »
Same version, same release note as in post 1.
Hopefully that will shut up the people with conspiracy theories about some terrible problem with 1.03.12. However the people complaining about the EPG response will probably surface again; do you know if Humax intend to do anything about it Barry?
optics42 – 18 minutes ago »
The Humax now thinks the drive is OK, possibly only a temporary reprieve but there were over 60Gb of orphaned chains on drive…maybe confusing the system??
No the Humax may refuse to do anything useful with the drive but it will still recognise its presence. I would think a bad connection is more likely. How did you detect the 60GB of orphaned chains?
Bootymus – 1 hour ago »
Bugger. Is there any way to change it or do I have to reinstall and uninstall the custom firmware again?
Sorry I don’t know for certain; the experts on custom firmware who will know are at hummy.tv. Certainly reinstalling and then doing it the correct way will work.
Biggles – 1 hour ago »
I’m assuming you want to keep your recorded programmes.
No his drive has died. I think he was asking about cloning somebody else’s disk because some clown at Humax Technical support had told him the software was on the disk; sigh.
mathsus – 14 minutes ago »
I’m using scart cables.
How many SCART sockets does your TV have?
That’s what I thought I would have to do but I will need a aerial cable with male and female ends won’t I?
Yes (or a cable coupler).
mathsus – 8 minutes ago »
The rep assured me that it wouldn’t affect any recording devices I already had and that was lovely as I adore and rely on my PVR 9200T. But how on earth do I get them to work together? Can they? Or how can I switch between them both through the same telly?
How are you connecting the Youview box to the television (SCART, HDMI etc)? For the aerial feed, connect the feed to the Humax aerial in and then run an aerial lead from the Humax aerial out to the Youview box.
optics42 – 5 hours ago »
Maybe jumping the gun (if help is on its way) but could it be possible to do a sector-by-sector clone from a working 9200 drive to a replacement drive using the IDE bus on an XP PC?
Why would you want to do that? Put a new drive in and format it. Job done.
