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Basically I use my hard drive for my Humax Set Top Box and before I started using it I had to format it. I can’t remember what the format was too. When I went to my plug it back into my computer I had to download a program in order for windows to pick it up and let me view the things that were on it. Since I have last done that I have done a reinstall of windows vista so I have lost the program.
Anyone have any ideas what that program might be or able to help windows view the files again?
It doesnt show up in my computer but does show up in device management as just a disk drive, it doesnt say anything else.
Any help would be appreicated, thanks.
AaronQPR – 2 hours ago »
Anyone have any ideas what that program might be or able to help windows view the files again?
You need a driver to read the EXT3 file system such as Link to EXT2FSD web site.
Martin Liddle – 1 week ago »
AaronQPR – 2 hours ago »
Anyone have any ideas what that program might be or able to help windows view the files again?
You need a driver to read the EXT3 file system such as Link to EXT2FSD web site.
Problem sorted, thank you.
Hello, actually I’m not sorted I can now view everything in windows fine but writing to the disc, windows states this…
The disc is write-protected.
Remove the write protection or use another disc.
Can someone please help me in how I get rid of the write protection?
Not sure it is a good idea – but I think this is a EXT2FSD setting.
There are different ways to achieve this,
start Ext2 volume manager
click on Tools tab
then service management
untick Mount all volumes in read only mode
tick Enable writing support
As usual, be very careful what you do with these tools, if you tell them to wipe your C drive, they will with no hesitation
damian – 1 day ago »
There are different ways to achieve this,
start Ext2 volume manager
click on Tools tab
then service management
untick Mount all volumes in read only mode
tick Enable writing support
As usual, be very careful what you do with these tools, if you tell them to wipe your C drive, they will with no hesitation
Thanks for your info. It is still claiming that it is a write protected disk after clicking on apply though? Any more help? What is the other option as you said there is 2 ways.
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Thanks for your info. It is still claiming that it is a write protected disk after clicking on apply though? Any more help? What is the other option as you said there is 2 ways.
sorry for the delay,
There are different ways to achieve this
one would be to plug the drive back into the HD-FoxT2, put custom firmware on it, mount it over the network to your pc and if you still have write problems you can telnet onto the Humax and check permissions, easy if you know how, difficult to explain step by step.
Almost as fiddly, boot into a live Linux distribution, either from CD/DVD or usb stick, something like Ubuntu and all will be revealed. If you’re interested in such stuff it’s well worthwhile doing, again easy once you know how.
I’m guessing you want the windows option and I’m not sure why it doesn’t work on the PC
plug the drive in, start Ext2 volume manager, change the write settings as described above, load and refresh, click on the disk, right click and change drive letter, add a mount point, done, load and refresh, refresh the view in windows explorer.
This works fine on my PC, no problems writing to it.
If you still have problems writing to it then it may have been uncleanly unmounted, i.e. pulled out from the Humax while files were still open on the disk. This can be checked again via custom firmware or booting a live linux distribution, or what may be easier, plug the drive back into the Humax, start it up, record something for a minute or so just to make sure you can, shut down the Humax and remove the drive, this should prove it’s writeable and leave it cleanly uunmounted. If this still doesn’t work, then I assume you have copied everything off the drive, it may be easier to copy anything you want to the PC, plug it back into the Humax and reformat it.
If you don’t have the space to copy off or have TB’s of data that’ll take for ever then the custom firmware or live linux route would be easiest.
My guess is that it’s stuck on the Ext2 volume manager as it’s not the most intuitive of programs
The other consideration is vista which has to be the worst OS ever, I can say this as I’ve never tried ME, but it’s worse than win8 which is saying something, let’s hope the 8.1 available in a few days puts that right.
I’ve not tried this in vista and I shudder to think about it, you may have to right click on Ext2 volume manager before starting it and start in administrator mode, just a thought.
Let us know how you get on, good luck
Thanks for the reply.
I have tried all the above – windows based.
I sort of have an idea with linux so I may give that ago as that seems like my only option now.
Can you still download the live cd’s for it?? Or even better put start on a usb and start up from there? The more information given to me on linux the better
Thanks for all the help ive been given so far.
Shame windows based didn’t work, I’ve had no problems with win7, Ext2 Volume Manager and the external HDFoxT2 drive here.
Linux is easiest via usb pen drive,
however, if both the Humax and Vista are connected via network then I think you should try the custom firmware on the HD-FoxT2 first, you’ll need HD_FOX_T2_1.02.29_mod_2.19.zip
if you can’t find it below then you’ll need to google for it
http://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Firmware_Downloads
make sure you download the right version, install it onto the Humax, it’s a bit trickier than the HDR-FoxT2 to install and once finished you should be able to mount/map the attached Humax drive with windows explorer using the ip address of the humax to your vista pc and with even more luck you should be able to write to it. If you can’t and you can record a couple minutes of tv to it then it’s looking like vista is causing the problem.
What I don’t understand is if you can record a couple of minutes to the drive when attached to the Humax quite why you can’t write to it when attached to vista with Ext2 volume manager.
If the vista and humax aren’t connected via network then put something like ubuntu onto a usb pen drive, boot your vista pc into linux and you should be able to see both the attached usb drive and your vista partition and copy whatever you want across.
If there are still problems then let us know how far you got, I think important to know would be are they networked and can you record tv as normal onto the drive when connected to the HDFoxT2
damian – 4 days ago »
Shame windows based didn’t work, I’ve had no problems with win7, Ext2 Volume Manager and the external HDFoxT2 drive here.
Linux is easiest via usb pen drive,
however, if both the Humax and Vista are connected via network then I think you should try the custom firmware on the HD-FoxT2 first, you’ll need HD_FOX_T2_1.02.29_mod_2.19.zip
if you can’t find it below then you’ll need to google for it
http://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Firmware_Downloads
make sure you download the right version, install it onto the Humax, it’s a bit trickier than the HDR-FoxT2 to install and once finished you should be able to mount/map the attached Humax drive with windows explorer using the ip address of the humax to your vista pc and with even more luck you should be able to write to it. If you can’t and you can record a couple minutes of tv to it then it’s looking like vista is causing the problem.
What I don’t understand is if you can record a couple of minutes to the drive when attached to the Humax quite why you can’t write to it when attached to vista with Ext2 volume manager.
If the vista and humax aren’t connected via network then put something like ubuntu onto a usb pen drive, boot your vista pc into linux and you should be able to see both the attached usb drive and your vista partition and copy whatever you want across.
If there are still problems then let us know how far you got, I think important to know would be are they networked and can you record tv as normal onto the drive when connected to the HDFoxT2
They are not connected via a network so will give USB Ubuntu a go.
I can record to the hard drive fine when its connected to the humax box.
Thanks for your help, I will let you know how I get on.
I have tried a USB boot of Linux and it’s still not allowing me to copy data over to the drive. Any ideas why this could be?
Assuming you’ve booted into Ubuntu Linux and have a Linux window…
It’s likely that your disks are numbered/named something like sda1, sdb1, sdc1 for the vista disk, usb pen drive and Humax drive, don’t worry if they’re called something else.
Can you open the file manager, click on these disks (you should recognise which one is which by the size and what’s on them), wait a second or two, and navigate through the files/directories on the disks.
If you can navigate then it should just be a case of right clicking on a file from the vista disk to copy and moving the mouse to the Humax disk, right clicking and pasting. Choose a small file to test with first.
If you can navigate through the vista and Humax disks with the file manager, but still can’t copy and paste, then you’ll need to open a dos type command window, called shell/term/xterm or similar (icon looks like an old computer screen generally)
you should be on a command line and type the following
fdisk -l
df -k
mount
and post the results back to us.
I can’t remember with Ubuntu, but you may have to type ‘sudo’ in front of the above commands, i.e. sudo fdisk -l
Thanks for the reply.
This is a little out of the comfort zone so I don’t know whether I have got the right information for you.
Just to let you know in ubuntu… it allows copy but when you go to paste it is faded out. If you try drag and drop nothing happens.
I hope this attachments help you understand more with whats going on, these are shots from the ubuntu command prompt…
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