Lost all recordings

[104bill]

@104bill - With an empty 1TB HDD your recordings list will show something like 960GB free disk space. If it shows something markedly different then you are probably looking at the wrong mount. Have you tried checking in OpenWebIF , I would just out of curiosity, before doing anything that might destroy the data?

The percentage at the bottom of the panel was 0%. I have only the one HDD disc mounted, Anyway too late now i've reset and remounted so all data gone, working as it should at the moment showing 929GB (99%) see where we go from here. thanks all the same.

[Valiant]

The percentage at the bottom of the panel was 0%. I have only the one HDD disc mounted, Anyway too late now i've reset and remounted so all data gone, working as it should at the moment showing 929GB (99%) see where we go from here. thanks all the same.

If the 0% refers to free disk space then the disk is full, so probably a corrupt index/FAT so initialising may fix it if there are no hardware errors like bad sectors. If it happens again then you may have to prep/format the disk which will take some time, I think there is a Vix menu option somewhere, probably in the Viz sub menu.

[104bill]

If the 0% refers to free disk space then the disk is full, so probably a corrupt index/FAT so initialising may fix it if there are no hardware errors like bad sectors. If it happens again then you may have to prep/format the disk which will take some time, I think there is a Vix menu option somewhere, probably in the Viz sub menu.

Cheers, if it happens again i'll give it a try, Hopefully won't need to. Thanks again.

[danped]

Update from me, I did a full scan with testdisk and it took about 8 days on my 2tb disk. It recovered a list of filesystems but each one was corrupt and so it could not be loaded. The disk itself seems ok and passes diskcheck without errors. So I ahve lost my data. It sounds like Vix cannot programtically do this so I can only presume the disk itself has an issue. I'm still going to use the disk but backup anything I want to keep and see how it goes.

[Valiant]

I don't think Vix can do a low-level format, it only seems to do an initialize which clears the FATs or whatever the equivalent is in the linux file system. Personally I would not trust the disk, I would install a replacement disk and format the replaced disk appropriately.

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

I don't think Vix can do a low-level format, it only seems to do an initialize which clears the FATs or whatever the equivalent is in the linux file system. Personally I would not trust the disk, I would install a replacement disk and format the replaced disk appropriately.

What convinces you that the disk failed rather than the box crashing and writing garbage over some important data structures?

Update from me, I did a full scan with testdisk and it took about 8 days on my 2tb disk. It recovered a list of filesystems but each one was corrupt and so it could not be loaded. The disk itself seems ok and passes diskcheck without errors. So I ahve lost my data. It sounds like Vix cannot programtically do this so I can only presume the disk itself has an issue. I'm still going to use the disk but backup anything I want to keep and see how it goes.

Is this testdisk from CGSecurity? Did is say anything about the drives health or about SMART information?