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Hi,
Thanks for the join. Sill using a 5000T here. Ran it for years, but the hdd failed a couple of days ago, so replced it with a 500Gb sata ssd. Drive not new, and had to zero the frst few blocks with dd, but formatted fine. Much lower power, barely gets warm and the whole unit runs cooler now.
The old drive still spins up, so put it on a Linux box, which showed a load of bad blocks. Partition table looks like linux, so ran efsck, which fixed a few things, but plan to use humaxrw and perhaps other tools to try and recover some of the files.
Anyway, thanks again.
Chris
chrrisq – 41 mins ago »
The old drive still spins up, so put it on a Linux box, which showed a load of bad blocks. Partition table looks like linux, so ran efsck, which fixed a few things, but plan to use humaxrw and perhaps other tools to try and recover some of the files.
You can’t use humaxrw on a 5000T, it is a tool intended for use on earlier Humax PVRs that used a Humax proprietary file system. Just use standard Linux tools.
You may be able to recover files, but you are unlikely to be able to play them. Most files are encrypted and have to be played back on the original machine. If you have a USB caddy you might be able to play (and copy SD and maybe HD) from the original disk plugged into the Humax USB port. Failing that you would need to copy the filestore structure intact to another USB drive (on your computer) then attach the USB drive to your Humax.
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