sloppyjoe – 1 hour ago  » 

Moments ago, I took out the old disk from the HDR and put it into my old docking unit, and using Ex2 Volume Manager I can see all the disk folders and files. So I am copying the entire folder, named “video” to my PC. Says it will take 2 hrs and 10 mins. Next question is, do I need any other folder to copy ? or , if all goes well, copy this to my new disk, after it has been formatted etc on the HDR ?

You just need the Video folder. A recording comprises the main video audio data xxx.ts and sidecar files xxx.nts, xxx,htm and .tac files. The .tac files are small graphics used for the chapter thumbnails. The foxsat will create this during overnight house keeping do no need t o copy these files back.

When you set up the box with a new hard drive you should be able to use the usb dock and connect it to one of the Foxsat-HDR usb ports and replay the original recordings direct from the old disk. You will find the Video folder in the SDA3 partition.

The other ones aren’t folders but different partitions like C: and in windows. Linux partitions use the SDAx naming convention. The recordings are in partition 3 (SDA 3). They are used to hold users Music and photo content. 0.ts is the time shift buffer file and a corrupted 0.ts may well be the problem with the disk. Rename it as say 0.old will force the foxsat to create a new one. After this I wouldn’t be surprised that the old disk springs into life if you re-install it.

After installing the new hard disk you can use the format command to change the size of the user partition to make max space for recordings. I forget the minimum size you can set it to. Perhaps Repassac will remember.

“After installing the new hard disk you can use the format command to change the size of the user partition to make max space for recordings. I forget the minimum size you can set it to. Perhaps Repassac will remember.”

I don’t really remember – it depends on if you will upload user movies and also if you have installed the custom firmware and services. I do remember that the space you can add to the recordings partition is small and hardly worth the bother.

REPASSAC – 13 minutes ago  » 

“After installing the new hard disk you can use the format command to change the size of the user partition to make max space for recordings. I forget the minimum size you can set it to. Perhaps Repassac will remember.”

I don’t really remember – it depends on if you will upload user movies and also if you have installed the custom firmware and services. I do remember that the space you can add to the recordings partition is small and hardly worth the bother.

Found it it adds about 26GB to the recording partition. My Foxsat has the minimum size and there’s no problem with the CF.

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That’s about 6hrs of HD recording time.

sloppyjoe – 4 minutes ago  » 

grahamlthompson – 12 minutes ago  » 

sloppyjoe – 1 minute ago  » 

Just finished copying, and did as you suggested and renamed the 0.ts file. Put the disk back in and up it came. No remote operations at first and then after about 30 seconds they started to work. I am now trying to get webif running and I can connect, and it says Download and install etc etc,,and I click on that and it seems to be doing something and then disconnects, so I am just reclicking to see if it will eventually re-install.

As you have a copy of your recordings try formatting the hard drive from the menus. The basic CF is in NVRAM so provided you can access using the box IP address in a browser you should be able install the full package,

Well it seems that renaming did not completely fix it. The unit is freezing up and rebooting, so perhaps I need to wait for the new disk, or as you say, try reformatting.

Guessing the disk has some issue that Fixdisk may well sort out. First priority is get a copy of your recordings. You should be able to play them back from USB anyway.

sloppyjoe – 17 minutes ago  » 

Result

I got the unit running and quickly got into the menu and re-formatted the video portion and restarted. Then things began to look up. I could finish installing Webif and now I can connect via the browser. I also tried FTP and that is ok. And I can telnet in also. So it would seem that I should now be able to copy a couple of videos across and see how if it continues.

Result

If you can’t see the recording in the media list Use the Webif and choose rename. You don’t have to change anything. Rename corrects the filepath in the .hmt file. The fix filepaths package scans the recording folder and corrects any path errors.