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I have a 9300T but am saving up for the HD PVR (sorry can’t remember it’s name)
I have a couple of programmes on the 9300 I’d really like to keep and wondered whether there was an easy way of transferring these?
Humax HDR Fox T2
The bottom line is there is no easy way to transfer from a 9300 to the HDR T2, you would have to remove the Hard Disc from the 9300 to start with.
Hi liz
as Barry says there is no easy way to transfer the files from a 9300.
However if you are confident about removing the drive and you can copy the files you want off (you may need a specialised program for that eg humaxrw), they could then be transferred to an external USB hard drive formatted for use with the HDR though there may be some file conversion necessary too.
Thanks both.
I could remove the hard drive from the 9300 when I get my HDR T2 but not sure how to copy the files?
It’s no real biggy but I entered a photo comp with photos of my lovely dog Benjy and he was chosen as runner up and would be nice to keep the programmes where these were shown.
I believe humaxrw (from the download page here) (link)will read the files from a 9300t drive – you would need to connect using a USB-SATA adapter or direct to a spare port in the PC. Alternatively you could mount the drive in an external USB enclosure.
It’s command line but straightforward.
Do Not let Windows initialise the drive.
Thanks Aldaweb.
If you check this – 9300T / 9150T mods at humaxDisk, the problem is that with these using SATA drives rather than EIDE, and a Linux file system rather than DOS, the old 9200 mod doesn’t work.
What you must do is read the file system via something like FS driver, since Windows does not natively read anything that isn’t windows (I could say much more but I won’t
). I’m currently working out the best way to do the cabling from the above mods, but finding cables/splitters/passthroughs is proving tricky.
Another thing to try with the 9300 would be to download and burn a Linux “Live CD” such as OpenSuSE 11.4 – KDE Live (more choices at OpenSuse.org. You need to burn it as a bootable ISO image using a tool such as Nero, then set the BIOS to boot CD/DVD before HDD.
Restart and experience Linux for yourself, no risk of damage to the M$ installation unless you choose to install from the live CD, even then the installer is pretty good at not breaking your M$ OS. YMMV…
My experience is that the best connection method is removing the drive from the hummy and plugging it in via a USb adaptor such as Maplin IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 adaptor. Copy the file to an external HD (also via USB) and you’re away.
Richard
goatie – 1 hour ago »
If you check this – 9300T / 9150T mods at humaxDisk, the problem is that with these using SATA drives rather than EIDE, and a Linux file system rather than DOS, the old 9200 mod doesn’t work.
What makes you think it is a Linux file system? As far as I am aware it is Humax proprietary and very similar (but not identical to the 9200). Humaxrw will read and write to it.
Richard MQ – 13 minutes ago »
Another thing to try with the 9300 would be to download and burn a Linux “Live CD” such as OpenSuSE 11.4 – KDE Live
What do you think that will achieve?
9200 certainly uses a proprietary file system, and the second half of my post is the method I use for transfer (along with various software to read the Hummy HD and transfer to my host PC)
I haven’t yet tried it with our newer 9300 but I also understand that it uses a Linux FS – this may not be correct though.
If it is correct, a Linux Live CD will allow you to read the files from the HD, if connected via such a USB adaptor as I descibed. Assuming a similar file structure, a player such as VLC or MPlayer would then play the TS files directly
Richard MQ – 29 minutes ago »
I haven’t yet tried it with our newer 9300 but I also understand that it uses a Linux FS
To the best of my knowledge it doesn’t use a Linux file system.
Martin Liddle – 1 hour ago »
goatie – 1 hour ago »
If you check this – 9300T / 9150T mods at humaxDisk, the problem is that with these using SATA drives rather than EIDE, and a Linux file system rather than DOS, the old 9200 mod doesn’t work.
What makes you think it is a Linux file system? As far as I am aware it is Humax proprietary and very similar (but not identical to the 9200). Humaxrw will read and write to it.
I based thison the comments in the loop mod page. If it were a proprietary FS, Windows would not be able to read it, and Linux would likely have issues too.
“Using Ubuntu 9.02 Live CD, I was able to boot up my HTPC (which has an eSATA port at the front and at the back) and connect the internal HDR’s HDD to the front eSATA port to transfer recordings to my external HDD drive.”
is why a live boot Linux CD seems a good route to take.
Anyway, I’m not trying to start an argument here, just reporting what I’ve read elsewhere.
goatie – 13 minutes ago »
“Using Ubuntu 9.02 Live CD, I was able to boot up my HTPC (which has an eSATA port at the front and at the back) and connect the internal HDR’s HDD to the front eSATA port to transfer recordings to my external HDD drive.”
That is referring to the modification applied to a FOXSAT HDR whcich like the other current Humax HD models uses Linux EXT3 file system. I will say again that the Humax 9300 uses a similar file system to the 9200; see the note against version1.14 of HumaxRW HumaxRW
I have to back Martin up here – the 9300 filesystem is not linux based but similar yet not the same as the 9200t. humaxrw was modified to be able to read from the drive with a suitable (SATA) connection whether USB-SATA or eSATA or direct. (eg the USB-IDE adapter I used in my 9200t also has a SATA connector which would be usable with a 9300t drive – it also has a molex to SATA power adapter).
Any references to HDR mean either the Foxsat or Fox T2 HD systems which the 9300t predates.
The link mod referred to should still work using humaxrw to read the drive, but NB you should not let Windows attempt to ‘initialise’ the drive
You can use a linux live CD if you want but only if humaxrw was included which you would have to add yourself.
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