Hello, new to the forum - I have been lurking around on this thread http://www.avsforum.com/t/1010518/panasonic-dmr-hard-drive-data-recovery-it-can-be-done/60 and have hit a brick wall trying to resusitate my Panasonic DMR EX773 (Europe/UK model) after an over the air update failed and corrupted the firmware partition (it will not boot).
Having imaged the 160 GB HDD, I used HxD to overwrite the first 355 MB with firmware.txt from the thread above without success. I also tried dmr-recover.py script on the image to try and recover the movies without success (probably a different format from the DMR EX77 / US Models).
Panasonics website offers the French firmware:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dvd/download/ex773/index.html
I have extracted PANA_DVD.FRM, but this file is only 6 MB. It is designed to be burnt to CD then the update triggered via the on screen menus (this assumes the unit will boot of course).
Is there any way of decompressing/extracting the information from the FRM file (ideally I need the UK version) so I can bitwise copy it to sector 1 onwards of the HDD?
I did think about just putting the FRM data on sector 1 onwards. If it loads to RAM it may then extract and write the firmware to HDD and revive the unit, but it is a long shot.
Having imaged the 160 GB HDD, I used HxD to overwrite the first 355 MB with firmware.txt from the thread above without success. I also tried dmr-recover.py script on the image to try and recover the movies without success (probably a different format from the DMR EX77 / US Models).
Panasonics website offers the French firmware:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dvd/download/ex773/index.html
I have extracted PANA_DVD.FRM, but this file is only 6 MB. It is designed to be burnt to CD then the update triggered via the on screen menus (this assumes the unit will boot of course).
Is there any way of decompressing/extracting the information from the FRM file (ideally I need the UK version) so I can bitwise copy it to sector 1 onwards of the HDD?
I did think about just putting the FRM data on sector 1 onwards. If it loads to RAM it may then extract and write the firmware to HDD and revive the unit, but it is a long shot.
