Originally Posted by siu99spj
Worryingly (perhaps), I still giggle when I think of it - but I was nearly choking with laughter as I thought up each pair of notes and wandered around sticking them up.
Originally Posted by siu99spj
However, one thing that might be nice to try, after you've recovered your precious recordings (Why the duplications in HD and SD, surely HD is sufficient?), is if you can write to the NTFS HDD. If that writes and reads succesfully, as you have with your TV recordings then that truly is the magical, mystical altar of a hybrid drive
Well, I am planning to try out stuff like writing to the drive but won't do that not only until after I've Hoovered off what I need but also until after I've received as many hints and tips as possible and also tried to run various tools that might give me a clue about what's going on - so all such suggestions really would be most appreciated!
As for the duplication of SD and HDD versions - you need to remember the reason for my having any of these broadcast recordings in the first place.
And that was because I'd been using the drive as part of the review-testing of the Evesham iplayer - and one of the logical things to do (I thought) was to compare the image quality of similar recordings in HD and SD standards.
Oh, and I want to keep the HD recordings in the hope that I might find a suitable tool to repurpurpose them into a form that is still HD but playable on my Athlon 64 3200+ PC, which is something of a runt compared with PCs based on new-gen Intel CPUs and with new-gen graphics cards.
Originally Posted by siu99spj
Personally, I think the early part of the HDD, where all the partition gubbins and other stuff is held, has gone truly wonky. The EXT2 capable PC see's what was there because PM8 didn't delete it, just tried to change the gubbins and failed, whereas the non-EXT2 capable PC just assumes it's a normal drive (And blows a woobly when you try and use it).
Did any of that make ANY sense?
I'm pretty sure that what you say - or something like it - is going to turn out to be true but for me to know what the real situation is will, I think, require the use of diagnostic tools I don't have (or, at least, might not remember I've got!).
So, like I said earlier, all such suggestions are most welcome.