Mmmm, interesting. I put a new drive into the broken Humax and plugged all of the wires back in. When I switched it on it went through the normal boot up sequence, messages to the TV etc but never got to the point of showing live TV. Additionally the menu button didn't open the menus so tuning was not an option. I removed the drive and put it into the caddy and ........ nothing. It is not seen by the Linux OS at all, not even the confirmation beep you get when a blank USB stick is inserted.
It would seem that I have only two options:
1) Try to clone the drive from the other machine. Can anyone recommend a disc clone utility for Linux Mint?
2) Try to retrieve the files from the duff hard disc and pop them onto a USB stick or transfer them to the cloned drive as required.
Is there anything I might try?
Thanks,
Rans6............................