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<blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 636530" data-attributes="member: 176256"><p>Humax didn't respond to my email so I had to phone them today.</p><p></p><p>Basically they told me that the hard disk has a corrupted FAT and that I needed to reformat it. I would lose all the recordings doing that of course.</p><p></p><p>When I told them the full story they offered to exchange the complete box for a new one. I have to provide the original receipt so that might be a small problem!</p><p></p><p>I asked them what OS the hard disk was formatted in and the told me Linux. I had suspected this given its size and the fact that NTFS is owned by Microsoft.</p><p></p><p>So, what next? Back in the good old days of DOS I can remember using a disk editor to repair the FAT so that's my first line of attack. At least it might be except for the fact that I don't think that Linux uses FAT, can anyone confirm?</p><p></p><p>Is it worthwhile hoiking the disk out and plugging it into my external disk adaptor? Should I be using something like the Linux boot disk mentioned in another thread that I started <a href="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/computer-discussion/158479-problems-reading-hard-disk.html" target="_blank">http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/computer-discussion/158479-problems-reading-hard-disk.html</a> ? That would surely boot the whole compputer into Linux, is that the right approach? If not, what programs can read a Linux formatted disk?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulR, post: 636530, member: 176256"] Humax didn't respond to my email so I had to phone them today. Basically they told me that the hard disk has a corrupted FAT and that I needed to reformat it. I would lose all the recordings doing that of course. When I told them the full story they offered to exchange the complete box for a new one. I have to provide the original receipt so that might be a small problem! I asked them what OS the hard disk was formatted in and the told me Linux. I had suspected this given its size and the fact that NTFS is owned by Microsoft. So, what next? Back in the good old days of DOS I can remember using a disk editor to repair the FAT so that's my first line of attack. At least it might be except for the fact that I don't think that Linux uses FAT, can anyone confirm? Is it worthwhile hoiking the disk out and plugging it into my external disk adaptor? Should I be using something like the Linux boot disk mentioned in another thread that I started [url]http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/computer-discussion/158479-problems-reading-hard-disk.html[/url] ? That would surely boot the whole compputer into Linux, is that the right approach? If not, what programs can read a Linux formatted disk? [/QUOTE]
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