Originally Posted by
rans6andrew
Is there any point in swapping the drive from the bad unit to the good unit to see what happens? As the drives are different sizes I wonder if anything else in the machines is different to allow the OS to load, bios settings not on the disk could cause both machines to end up broken ......
We have had several of these over the years. Upgrades have been down to wanting higher resolution, eg freeviewHD, but most often due to failure. You can disconnect the hard drive power and data leads and see if it boots up, which might diagnose a HD failure, and at least you then have the tuner if you need it. If the HD has failed you can easily put in a new one, but you may not be able to access the old recordings on a PC. Older boxes had proprietary recording formats although there was a lot of info online about how to rip them to a useable format on a PC.
New boxes are not expensive and have many new features - we can now record 4 channels and watch a fifth! Although the EPG and other controls have taken a massive backward step.
Another Humax forum is
https://hummy.tv/forum/