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PeeGee   10-14-2009 at 12:06:44 PM

Hi.

My PVR recently had HDD issues and I seemed to have lost all my programs.

Sticking the HDD into an IDE to USB adapter, I tried to access it to see what was on there and the drive is "not initialized" according to Windows Disk Management.

Now, knowing that Topfield PVRs run Linux, I installed Ext2IFS, in order to allow browsing of linux partitions - but no joy.

I then downloaded FindPart and the output for this drive was "none found", which doesn't seem entirely hopeful... can anyone offer me a ray of sunshine? Can I recover any files?

ta,
PG

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hawkeye22   10-14-2009 at 02:53:21 PM
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Toppy uses a proprietary format. You may be able to read it with this.

http://www.toppy.org.uk/downloads/info.php?tid=16

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PeeGee   10-14-2009 at 03:23:55 PM
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Bingo. Thanks Hawkeye!

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