Strange one this.

Not sure what happened here, but last night I fell asleep while I was watching a recorded programme and when I woke up it had finished so I went to rewind it back to where I was and from that point it had been over-recorded by F1 from the red button.

Can anyone explain what might have happened so I can prevent it from occuring again?

One possible explanation is that your file system is getting confused which can happen with the 9xxx series Humax boxes. If this is a one off occurrence then I wouldn't take any action but it it recurs then I would watch or download any important recordings and the format the drive from the HDD Control menu.

Thanks Martin.

The HDD is almost full so maybe that's not helping. Can't understand why it would record a random channel though that I wasn't even tuned in to and hadn't set for recording.

It has done a few other weird things recently so I'd better start watching before it goes completely.

Maybe when you fell asleep you 'fell' onto the red button.

Solution is not to watch (or even record) programmes that send you to sleep.

Seriously, it doesn't really sound like the 'corruption problem'. But I'd certainly keep an eye on it - look out for existing recordings getting renamed with the same as another one, so you have multiple ones the same title. At that stage you are pretty much at the point that you've lost everything unless you are prepared to drag them off the disc with a PC utility.

That depends on the interpretation of the phrase "over-recorded". If selecting the intended program from the media list and playing it shows the complete recording then I agree this is not file system corruption. If playing it starts with the correct program and then switches to another program then it is file system corruption. I don't think we have enough evidence to judge.

Question Time :yawn:

Yes, but the OP says:-

Which begs the question of how that recording got onto the disc at all. I find it hard to believe a file system issue could make the machine start recording of it's own free will ... but then again, if it gets at the recording schedule ... ??
That it seems to have 'played up' just when the OP fell asleep seems rather a coincidence to me.


Agreed.

When I woke up, the programme had finished and the TV was displaying the playlist. I selected the programme again and forwarded to a point somewhere shortly before I fell asleep. After a minute or so of playback it literally faded into F1 on the red button.

The only thing that I can think of is that I physically pressed the record button or some other button as I dropped off, but why would it record over the one I was watching with a channel I wasn't tuned into unless there's a bug in the software?

Yes, it's very odd.
The only thing I can think that might explain it is that the recording was already 'defective' - either the box somehow got onto the red button or the broadcast itself changed (broadcaster cock-up) - and it was chance that you fell asleep just before reaching that point.

But it is still very odd