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JHeaton – 2 hours ago »
Have got the SATA to USB cable, connected it up, I get the usual ‘double bleep’ USB connection noise, but it doesn’t seem to be able to see the drive?
HumaxRW won’t load at all – it just opens a command prompt window then closes straight away, literally under 1second.
I would guess you are double clicking on it which will not work. If you are running a recent version of Windows then you need to start a “Command prompt” with Administrative privileges. Start>All Programs>Accessories then instead of left clicking on Command Prompt, right click and select “Run as Administrator”. Once you have a command prompt cd to the directory where you have placed humaxrw.exe and type
humaxrw 1: -l
Note that the -l is a lower case “L”. if that doesn’t work then replace the 1: with 2:, 3;; etc until you get a response. Try reading the readme.txt file that comes with humaxrw.
Martin Liddle – 16 minutes ago »
JHeaton – 2 hours ago »
Have got the SATA to USB cable, connected it up, I get the usual ‘double bleep’ USB connection noise, but it doesn’t seem to be able to see the drive?
HumaxRW won’t load at all – it just opens a command prompt window then closes straight away, literally under 1second.
I would guess you are double clicking on it which will not work. If you are running a recent version of Windows then you need to start a “Command prompt” with Administrative privileges. Start>All Programs>Accessories then instead of left clicking on Command Prompt, right click and select “Run as Administrator”. Once you have a command prompt cd to the directory where you have placed humaxrw.exe and type
humaxrw 1: -l
Note that the -l is a lower case “L”. if that doesn’t work then replace the 1: with 2:, 3;; etc until you get a response. Try reading the readme.txt file that comes with humaxrw.
Martin and forum
Thanks for persisting with this idiot, who is desperately trying to remember command line work from GCSE computing over 20yrs ago…
Having got into the right directory, the command humaxrw 1: l gives the response ‘partition table: permission denied’. Couldn’t see a way to overcome this in the readme file, any ideas?
Cheers James
JHeaton – 23 minutes ago »
Having got into the right directory, the command humaxrw 1: l gives the response ‘partition table: permission denied’. Couldn’t see a way to overcome this in the readme file, any ideas?
Did you run humaxrw as Administrator? Did you try numbers other than 1:? What version of Windows are you using?
Martin Liddle – 4 minutes ago »
JHeaton – 23 minutes ago »
Having got into the right directory, the command humaxrw 1: l gives the response ‘partition table: permission denied’. Couldn’t see a way to overcome this in the readme file, any ideas?
Did you run humaxrw as Administrator?
Yes
Did you try numbers other than 1:?
Only 1 gave this response. 2-9 said ‘no such file or directory’. Figured there wasn’t much point going higher although willing to try it.
What version of Windows are you using?
Windows 7
Cheers James
For the sake of clarity; did you run as Administrator using the procedure I specified? Being a user with Administrative rights is not enough.
Start > all programmes> accessories> right click command prompt and left click run as administrator. Brings up screen ‘do you want to allow this programme to make changes, left click yes.
From the resulting command prompt window I tried what we’ve discussed above.
For absolute clarity I’ve done it again from the start and got exactly the same result.
Cheers James
JHeaton – 54 minutes ago »
Start > all programmes> accessories> right click command prompt and left click run as administrator. Brings up screen ‘do you want to allow this programme to make changes, left click yes.
From the resulting command prompt window I tried what we’ve discussed above.
For absolute clarity I’ve done it again from the start and got exactly the same result.
Fair enough. It is a long time since I have done this and I am out of ideas. Maybe if you wait someone else will be along who has done it more recently. It still sounds like a permissions issue to me.
Thanks for trying Martin. Wouldn’t even have got this far without you.
Suspect it’s a paperweight…
James
If at first you don’t succeed… think laterally…
I have several Humax, 9150 and 9300, am quite a big fan of them to be honest. This is the first one I’ve had go majorly wrong.
So – I decided to transplant the drive into one of the other chassis. Turned out to be a 10min job with screwdriver and pliers, couple of screws a bit fiddly, nothing terrible. Was careful to use the ‘static strip’ on my extension lead, wasn’t planning on touching circuit boards but equally risk of catching one and blowing it up.
I now have a functioning 9300t with a 160gb Western Digital hard drive…
Worth a go if anyone else has the same problem, and is certain it isn’t the HDD that’s gone faulty.
Cheers for all the help guys, James
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