Hardisk recovery

[alphacabbage1]

Hi,

While I was away (Sod's Law!) we seem to have lost all recordings on the hardisk -- just an empty /timeshift was left. Recordings started appearing on the only other storage, a USB thumb drive which was installed for picons and a few images for the front display. I'm wondering if the many harddisk recordings can be recovered and how I'd go about it.

Mount managed shows the disk with size 'unavailable', mount 'none'. Attempts to mount it give a 'Mount failed' error message:
<enigma.gPixMapPtr;proxy of <SwigObject of type 'ePtr< gPixmap > *' at 0x6aad1518> >)'. error code = 65280.

Info > Devices suggests the disk may be full;
WDCWD60EZRZ-00G) - ATA Bus (HDD)(5.86 TB) Free: full

I've tried a few hit-and-hope options: have set the thumb drive as harddisk under Mount Manager and its now set as target for timeshift and recordings.

After various reboots, Setup > Storage > 'Filesystem check' shows basic disk info but doesn't appear to do anything.

I'd appreciate any help...

Thanks!

[bmitie]

I look in on and off. Have you opened box and taken out HDD or even tried another one. Is it an SSD or the old type? 5.86 TB !!! How big is HDD?

A hard reboot and have a look, and then reboot using the remote onscreen one. Flash back to 6.3. The list is endless.

I have an xtrend for SWMBO and on Sat lost a prog. I had a backup box so xfrd to xtrend, did a hard reboot and .... really old recordings appeared, did another xfr, then a remote reboot and all lost appeared. weird. I hope you follow that.

[bellejt]

had this once too and hard reboot and immediatly did check HDD for errors (is inside image).Before remove everything from USB ports.This solved the problem.Just do not do a format of the disk.

[alphacabbage1]

I look in on and off. Have you opened box and taken out HDD or even tried another one. Is it an SSD or the old type? 5.86 TB !!! How big is HDD?

A hard reboot and have a look, and then reboot using the remote onscreen one. Flash back to 6.3. The list is endless.

I have an xtrend for SWMBO and on Sat lost a prog. I had a backup box so xfrd to xtrend, did a hard reboot and .... really old recordings appeared, did another xfr, then a remote reboot and all lost appeared. weird. I hope you follow that.

Hey, sorry for not noticing the replies. The disk was a WD 'Blue', about five years old but it died a death. Putting it in a Windows PC, the WD utilities were near useless: Dashboard's 'quick' SMART test took about a day to run and declared it 'OK'. It clearly wasn't with a variable non-zero 'Current Pending Sector' count and after data recovery & formatting, chkdsk showed serious errors. DiskInternals Linux Reader delivered (free) but it took about a day to read the disk and quite a few more to copy programmes to the OpenVix box's replacement drive (10TB this time so the next catastrophe will be much worse. )

[Joe_90]

Would you not be better off using a smaller disk in the receiver and then moving/copying files to a larger backup on a NAS, preferably running in a RAID configuration? You're just asking for grief running such large disks as your primary capture medium - you just lose so much when the disk eventually fails.

[alphacabbage1]

Would you not be better off using a smaller disk in the receiver and then moving/copying files to a larger backup on a NAS, preferably running in a RAID configuration?

That would certainly be a more robust arrangement but I'm keen to minimise the environmental impact and prefer a single box, only on when it needs to be. I stopped backing up the data years ago and ultimately, I'm prepared to lose the lot. The short lifespan of the WD 'Blue' did surprise me but I'm still expecting years of convenient, great entertainment with next to no ads and minimal streaming. Even starting from ground zero, I don't think it would take long to build an archive that keeps us laughing and crying on demand. Admittedly, our tastes have become trashier (my favourite guilty pleasure is getting up early on Saturday to binge watch 'Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares USA') -- but despite the rumours UK terrestrial TV is great.