22-11-2015, 09:49 AM
If Windows is able to read it, I will eat my hat.
It's more likely to be a format that Linux understands, but even that is not guaranteed.
And if you can see the contents, the layout of the files - and the file types themselves - is likely to be obfuscated, because humans were never intended to navigate the file structure.
Quite apart from anything, you have a brand new machine that is working well, and you're proposing connecting up a random hard drive to it? Hmm. Honestly, not something I'd recommend.
Your best best is to download a Linux distribution and make a live CD. Then, disconnect your existing hard drive - we don't want to damage the contents of that. Hook up the PVR's HDD and boot from the Linux CD, and see if it'll mount the PVR HDD. If that works, I'd copy the contents to a USB HDD or memory stick.
You might try the recommendation you received in post #3 - http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showt...p?t=121045
And did you conclusively eliminate the PSU from this? As I said, it's a very common problem. This unit is the right sort of age for capacitor problems...
It's more likely to be a format that Linux understands, but even that is not guaranteed.
And if you can see the contents, the layout of the files - and the file types themselves - is likely to be obfuscated, because humans were never intended to navigate the file structure.
Quite apart from anything, you have a brand new machine that is working well, and you're proposing connecting up a random hard drive to it? Hmm. Honestly, not something I'd recommend.
Your best best is to download a Linux distribution and make a live CD. Then, disconnect your existing hard drive - we don't want to damage the contents of that. Hook up the PVR's HDD and boot from the Linux CD, and see if it'll mount the PVR HDD. If that works, I'd copy the contents to a USB HDD or memory stick.
You might try the recommendation you received in post #3 - http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showt...p?t=121045
And did you conclusively eliminate the PSU from this? As I said, it's a very common problem. This unit is the right sort of age for capacitor problems...
