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Old 07-05-2013, 04:10
beberex
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Like an idiot I accidentally formatted my hard drive the other day from the hidden menu.

I wasn`t too bothered at first as I`d watched all the stuff on there anyway but soon discovered that Raydons custom f/ware had got screwed up as well.

I`ve since read up on Raydons cfw and found out that it actually resides on the photo/music partition so maybe that was to be expected? but unsure as to this.

I thought (at first) that along with the original Humax firmware, Raydons would have remained untouched as well but thinking about it, I`m guessing that the Humax firmware is probably stored in a ram chip on the motherboard somewhere otherwise upgrading the hard drive would of course be impossible. (waffle)

Anyway, I reloaded Raydons f/w again thinking that it would just overwrite the whole lot but it didn`t.

There seemed to be something left behind from the previous now corrupted installation. I tried it a few times before giving up and realising there was more to it.

Formatting the music/photo partition had no effect regards actually removing all the crud from the partition. I bet there`s a reason for this.

Then tried "reflashing" the firmware back to the Humax original 1.00.21 and re-installing Raydons which of course was a complete waste of time as I think doing this only removes the extended Raydon f/w on the music/photo partition (or renders it inaccessible) - only not so in my case.

Anyway, to cut a short story long, the last thing I thought of trying was to change the disc partition sizes prior to format.

Maybe this might mess the partition up enough to make it throw up and delete everything I thought

Result - Happiness.

Sorry to bore you all with my experience but..............

1. Don`t mess with owt in the hidden menu thingy.

2. If you accidentally format the drive and are using Raydons f/w just do the above.
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Old 07-05-2013, 07:19
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Like an idiot.....
At least you have learnt a valuable lesson about meddling with the engineering menu without having sufficient knowledge of the implications!
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Old 07-05-2013, 21:50
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Also, just to point out, if you do re-format the disk, there is NO WAY to get the data back. The formatter of filesystem used, Ext3, is very careful to recreate a pristine set of metadata describing the filesystem, and in the process it destroys all the linkages that tell you which disk block belongs to which file.

I found this out to his cost when a friend said 'OK' when his HDR threw a wobbly and presented re-format as the only option.
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