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Used to transfer recordings OK via USB using ELinker on an XP laptop.
I recently bought a Win 7 64 bit laptop.
I want to transfer recordings using USB connection (don’t want to open up Hummy)to my new laptop to watch on holiday.
So is there a program, with GUI, that works with Win7?
What version of Win7 64 do you have? Microsoft advertise that Win7 Professional and above can run XP mode, but their web page allows you to download it for Home Premium. You can download a fully licensed version of XP that will run in a virtual machine, and it connects to all the same devices that Win7 has access to.
Go here to select your OS and download the virtual machine and the XP image. Be aware the download is in excess of 500MB.
As you say it allows Home Premium to Download it, but it doesn’t load successfully. Presumably they hope people will upgrade their version of Windows.
I’ve never bought Windows separately, but I have every disk that came with every PC/Laptop I’ve ever bought, but I’m not sure those “recovery disks” are what you mean.
Try the alternative to eLinker – Andy Chappell’s Media Controller
Media Controller GUI by Andrew Smith is here:
http://www.andrewdsmith.plus.com/hummy/
Instructions on how to get it working on a Windows 7 64-bit is here:
http://mikedimmick.blogspot.com/2009/07/downloading-from-your-humax-pvr9200t-on.html
Looks worth a try son_t, but frankly I don’t think my IT skills, which despite being above average, are up to it; there’s a lot of techie-speak in those links. Neither the Humax nor the laptop are play things as such; the Humax is the family’s main viewing workhorse (with which I fiddle on a Sunday night at my peril)and the laptop is likewise not exclusively mine to meddle with half-blindly. I really need some easy-to-understand start to finish step-by-step instructions.
I bet you’ll get something of an easy-to-understand solution HERE, rather than any other forum… watch this space!
Still watching
I’m not particularly interested in squabbles between websites; I just want my questions answered by those who know and care enough to help.
So anything you can knock up on this would be gratefully received by me and I suspect a few others, as Win 7 64bit Home Premium seems to be the standard supplied in most new PC/laptops.
Thanks
I won’t be knocking instructions and posting it here, but as articles for the wiki pages… I’m just saying that won’t get this sort of ‘guide’ on other forums posts…
I suspect there aren’t many users who are new to transfering recordings from their older generation Humax boxes using the latest Windows 7 64-bit laptops! So I don’t think my pages will be up anytime soon to cater for the huge number of owners stuck of what to do!!
If you are really determined then the best way is to help yourself first… You will have to get to grips with installing Humax Media Controller, the USB drivers, and over coming Windows 7 signed drivers requirements…
If all that goes well, then you need plently of laptop and hummy time as transfers of recording takes forever via the USB connection!
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Son_t, I appreciate you have a lot of time and more invested in your take-the-hood off, direct connection to the HDD methodology, and good on you for that. But for reasons I have given, and others I haven’t, right now that is a non-starter for me. Unfortunately so is getting to grips with and pulling together a load of techie- speak on various websites myself to get the usb method going again.
I’m not concerned with large downloads. I just want to get back to what I had before where I could simply plug the laptop into the front of the hummy and transfer the odd programme (elinker worked OK enough for me).
As someone once said, I don’t have time to learn all about rockets, I just want to go to the moon.
From what you are saying the Hummy techararchy are unlikely to help me with what they consider, with some justification, an inferior methodology.
Que sera sera, as they say in Birmingham.
So instead of watching The Wedding, I’ve been trying to make eLinker work on Windows 7 64-bit. Unfortunately, no success
The USB driver for the Humax PVR mass storage device can’t be made to work (actually won’t install!) on the 64-bit version of Windows 7 – but will happily work on the 32-bit – even with Windows 7 the driver signing verification switched off.
The good news is that Media Controller (GUI) will work with Windows 7 64-bit, which uses the libusb-win32 driver which will install.
A blog post will follow this soon!
Blog post now completed: http://myhumax.org/blog/?p=279
We need more Royal Weddings.
Now up and running. Thanks son_t
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