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Nothing is every simple with computers (and the software in particular). But actually it turned out sort of easy once I knew how (famous last words). Started with the Humax HDD on the pc, installed Ext2fsd but all I got were the various partitions with the volume size - no file details at all...

I was heavily into the software mode last night and got some that was quite good at the initial stage (Haven't dared yet to press anything that features go/yes!). ET2 explore as an example lists the 'deleted' file folder but doesn't feature anything inside (all the other folders reveal all)...

I had a problem back in December with my camera and the memory card when it went wrong. Tried several pieces of recovery software at that time - typically they worked in varying success levels and can't quite remember which was best only that some were better than others. So it will be try them...

Thanks for the replies......it was a late night and busy morning! Took the HDD out connected up to the PC, Using easeus partition master I was going to copy the files to another HDD. However, the software allows me to look at the files Drive has atotal of 270Gb, some other stuff featured in...

HDD is getting full so was playing around with archiving to a USB drive. During that process I have inadvertantly pressed the yes button for delete for the folder which happened to feature another set of programmes we want to keep.Obviously the box started deleting the entire folder. Thinking if...

Gameboy Thanks for the effort though your last suggestion is no good - I did try a few years back and gave it up as very bad job! Cheers John

Analoguesat - quite an interesting one there where the old technology still works and has the edge! - I do have an old box somewhere in the garage!

I have a Humax F1 VAC but in typical fashion the remote went wrong and I am using a universal which does most things - alas the language option (which I had forgot about) doesn't appear on the replacement.

I seem to recall back in the analogue days that you could tune in to a foreign Eurosport and tweek the box to get different languages. (Though I never actually tried it) Currently I can get Eurosport in german on digital and obviously the language is German. Is there any options on digital to...