j-t-s – 5 hours ago  » 

Yes – there was no noise when the old drive was in, and none with the new drive either.

If neither drive spins up then I think there is a good chance it is the 12V supply that has failed; might be the actual power supply or something on the motherboard. If this is the problem then one way to work round it would be to fit a 2.5″ hard drive which only needs 5V. I have got a whole stack of 2.5″ drives if you want me to send you one to try?

j-t-s – 2 hours ago  » 

I assumed the HDD had died and so have just fitted a replacement Seagate Skyhawk HDD. The machine fired up but did not recognise the HDD and offer to reformat. Recordings are still failing and the PVR options are still greyed out.

Have you tested that the Skyhawk works independently of the Humax? When in the Humax can you hear the drive spin up? If it isn’t spinning up then it might be the 12V supply to the hard drive has failed.

REPASSAC – 2 hours ago  » 

I wonder if this is a sharing problem – Did you enable the legacy SMB client and SMB Direct in windows.

I am puzzled why you think enabling SMB would have any impact on using DLNA to play media; could you explain please?

Mzungu – 19 mins ago  » 

Can anyone who is knowledgable about these things please help or even suggest/recommend how I can do this.

Please could you tell us which make and model of HiFi you have?

Geoff2021 – 31 mins ago  » 

Thanks for the information. About a year back I had sent the box over to Digirepairs, and it came back to me with the problem resolved, but now the same [or similar] problem has reoccurred.

That is disappointing.

I did see a recent post on this forum where a similar problem was resolved by reformatting the HDD [errors had been noted on the HDD], and it fixed the problem. It means getting hold of a HDD docking station and doing a reformat, I think using a linux based operating system.

I would say if the drive is healthy then using fsck has a reasonably chance (based on experience with the HDR-FOX T2) of fixing it without reformatting. The easy test is if you or a friend has a known working SATA drive lying about then put it in the Humax. If the Humax recognises it then there is a problem with the drive taken from the Humax; if it doesn’t then you have the problem that Digirepair only managed to fix for a relatively short time and probably best to look at what other box you could buy.

There is a well know hardware problem with the HDR-1000S that causes the problem you are experiencing. Nobody here has so far managed to pin down the exact cause. Sometimes after leaving the box powered off the hard drive may work for a while. If you want a fix, the only route I know is to send it to Digirepairs see https://www.digirepairs.co.uk/product/repair-booking-humax-freesat-plus-freeview-plus-youview-plus-box-repairs-2/

davetparkes – 16 mins ago  » 

sorry i cant see what the partitioning scheme is.

What operating system is your laptop using?