Originally Posted by Peter the Great:
“From what I have been told it is not the hard drive itself.”
Did the person telling you this inspect and test the actual machine or was it just someone posting an opinion on an internet forum? Without actually inspecting and testing the hardware in question no-one on an internet forum, myself included, can say with any degree of certainty that "
XYZ" is the problem. It may be one of a number of possibilities.
You need to test the drive to see if it or the Humax has failed. This can be done relatively easily by removing it from the Humax and using a USB adapter to connect it to a PC. If the PC can recognise the drive and read the content (may need a suitable filesystem driver if it's not one the PC can read natively) then you can say the Humax is at fault. If the drive cannot be recognised by the PC regardless of what tools you use then that indicates a drive failure.
But unless you do some sort of testing you will never know.