dufusuk – 14 hours ago  » 

Could someone please point me in the right direction.

I’ve got the 4 dashes on the left hand side of the PV9000t. Looked up the FAQ, downloaded, humaxrw front-end and the humaxrw command line tools for windows 7. Neither of which can see the disk, which is IDE and USB attached. the Windows tray usb icon(bottom rhs) is asking if I want to eject ST3160022ACE, which is the 80Gb original. The only other disk on the laptop is a 125GB SSD.

Can anyone suggest anything, or is my disk fried ?

thanks

dufusuk

Thank you for responding

I’m trying to use the instruction in this FAQ:

https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/stuck-in-standbylocking-up-using-humaxcheck-to-recover-a-failing-file-system

1. first step of trying a manual reset didn’t work.

2. Tried using ‘humaxcheck’ with ‘humaxcheck :0’ till ‘humaxcheck :9’, and it can’t read the hdisk

3. Read in the forum that the GUI front end for ‘humaxrw’ auto detects the humax hdisk if connected. So installed and ran it without any option and it didn’t detect it.

4. It should be on port 2, as ‘Devices Properties’ tells me it’s attached to device id 2.

any thoughts on what do I try next ?

Do you get any error message from humaxcheck 2: ? Are you running the programs with Administrative privileges? I would say the Linux versions of the programs run equally well; note that the syntax for the drive is different in the Linux versions.

Output from Windows 7, as it’s easier for me:

For the Humax disk, USB Storage Device Properties for ST3160022ACE shows:

Location : Port_#0002.Hub_#0004

humaxcheck output

For all disks get this:

C:humaxhumaxcheck-0.10W-win32>humaxcheck :1

humaxcheck version 0.10W (c) xyz321

Writes to the Humax disk are disabled

Humax disk: No such file or directory

C:humaxhumaxcheck-0.10W-win32>humaxcheck 2:

humaxcheck version 0.10W (c) xyz321

Writes to the Humax disk are disabled

Humax disk: No such file or directory

humaxrw output

for disk 0

C:humaxhumaxrw-1.15-win32>humaxrw 0: -l

Unknown partition table

for disk 1

C:humaxhumaxrw-1.15-win32>humaxrw 1: -l

AV partition – error in file allocation table 00061e79 00000000 00000000

for disk 2-9

C:humaxhumaxrw-1.15-win32>humaxrw 2: -l

\.PhysicalDrive2: No such file or directory

Does this suggest that the humax disk is ‘1:’ ? Or because I have 2 partitions , ie c: and f: ‘humaxrw’ is only seeing these 2 partitions (0: and 1:) and not the humax disk ?

aldaweb – 7 mins ago  » 

Secondly the fact that Windows has given the drive a drive letter would suggest it has initialised the drive and therfore the humax filesystem is possily corrupted.

Hi aldaweb, Windows hasn’t given the disk a drive letter. The c: and f: drives are existing partitions, on the SSD. I can see a ‘label’ from ‘Devices’ but nothing else. I’ve run the utilities as Administrator and they’re still not reading the disk. if the disk is corrpt, how do I format it so that the Humax can read it again ?

aldaweb – 1 hour ago  » 

Just to confirm that you are running from an administrator command prompt not .

Yes, I’m running the ‘cmd’ program as an Administrator. ie Administrator:c:windowssystem32cmd.exe, an admin cmd prompt.

If Windows doesn’t see the disk as a drive, how can I format it, do I need a specific disk utility ? CrystalDiskInfo can’t see the humax disk either.

If the panel is showing 4 dashes, is it even trying to boot off the disk, or is stuck in a firmware loop ?