I wasn’t aware that humaxcheck has any capability to recover from your situation. Is there guidance somewhere that suggests different? The usual route is to use humaxrw in recovery mode (-r command line option) to download the recordings to a PC. You can then use ts2hrw to recreate the necessary hre files and upload them back to the Humax after formatting the disk.

I had exactly the same issue with my 9200TBX this morning and I’ve managed to recover all the recordings using HumaxRW which I found pretty simple to use. However, I had to use ts2hrw to recreate the hre files and so now when I put the disk back in the Humax I’ve lost all the title, date/time and EPG info. Is that to be expected having used ts2hrw or have I misunderstood how to use it?

Thanks Martin, I really appreciate your response. This month I’ve fixed both this problem and the ‘–:– in Standby’ problem with the help of this forum.

I’m hoping that if I do decide to replace my box with an HDR-FOX T2 that it won’t suffer from quite so many small annoying problems as well as these more serious ones.

stevehumax – 1 minute ago  » 

Ran humaxrw and the message is “unknown partition table”, not sure the way forward here? any ideas? Desperate not to loose my recordings!

Have you allowed Windows to “Initialise” the disk in disk/device manager? The disk should not appear under “My Computer”. If this is done accidentally use the “-p” option to HumaxCheck to fix the partition table.

When I did a “humax 1: -l” I got nothing, “humax 1: -r -l” gave me a list which I then copied for use later. I then used “humaxrw 1: -r -g 3-42” to transfer off the files. “ts2hrw *.ts” created the hre files for me. Reformated the drive in the Humax before copying all the programs back on using “humaxrw 1: -p *.ts”. I used the Humax to rename the programs back to what they were before based on the info I copied from the “humaxrw 1: -r -l” result.

I can now watch and record as before so I’m happy for the time being. Hope that helps.

It’ll copy to your current folder. I created a sub-folder on an H: drive to copy it to, so at the command prompt I used “H:” followed by “cd Humax” so that I was in H:Humax. Either copy humaxrw.exe to the same folder or specify the location in your command, I used the command “c:humaxrwhumaxrw 1: -r -g 3-42” as I’d kept humaxrw.exe in the C:HumaxRW folder. This copied all my recordings from device 1: to H:Humax. Hope that makes sense.