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Hey folks,
I might be crazy (and we could usually stop there), but I've run the extract_rtv command on my SS2000 disk that just decided on its own to delete all of my recorded shows one day [Where I yammered on about this earlier] (about 25 hours worth, all recorded in low-q, on an unhacked system), and the results are, to say the least, unimpressive.
According to everything I've read on this forum, I should have seen multiple lines with the description of xxxxx.mpg, yes? I had, according to MyReplayTV (still had my data pre-loss), 35 guaranteed and not-guaranteed items recorded, some 1/2-hour, most 1-hour, and 3 or 4 were 2-hours long, so it seems reasonable to expect to see a bunch of inodes with xxx.mpg. After my SS decided to delete all shows, I let it record one more show to make certain it still functioned, and THAT is the only mpg that shows up in 15 pages of inodes found when running the command
extract_rtv -p2 -dd >files.txt
The Replay disk is the second of two in my PC. The first disk is the one with my Windows2000 OS on it. Extract_rtv seemed to be able to determine that this second disk was the one to work with, so I'm at a loss why I don't see a bunch of mpgs.
The majority of the inodes, according to the (description) on the end of each line, are "xxxx.FiledArray"s or a whole passle of different cable boxes, ie:
"valid inode (0x01e8) found at cluster 15527 (RadioShackCableBox)" , "valid inode (0x01e8) found at cluster 16340 (ScientificAtlantaCableBox)",
etc.
The only xxxx.mpg is the one show I recorded AFTER the system deleted everything. There are BMPs, TXT files, software.backup files, etc., but only the one mpg.
So tell me, people familiar with UNdeleting shows, did my box not only delete every recorded program but then overwrite them too? Are all my programs lost for good, or are some of these "FiledArray"s my shows???
I'm willing to ship someone the drive if they think they can do better than I have, but I don't know what good that would do. I have 15 pages of files listed, but nothing besides the one program that isn't deleted shows up (as an mpg) when I run extract_rtv. I'm not all hot & bothered about creating VCDs or anything like that, I just want to be able to get my shows off the disk. I'll worry about the rest of that long-term storage stuff later...right now, there are (were?) things on that disk that I can't replace.... *grrr*
Am I missing something (I hope)?
If so, PLEASE help, 'cuz right now I'm feeling pretty SS-screwed. 
Thanks to anyone who can help...
David.
I might be crazy (and we could usually stop there), but I've run the extract_rtv command on my SS2000 disk that just decided on its own to delete all of my recorded shows one day [Where I yammered on about this earlier] (about 25 hours worth, all recorded in low-q, on an unhacked system), and the results are, to say the least, unimpressive.
According to everything I've read on this forum, I should have seen multiple lines with the description of xxxxx.mpg, yes? I had, according to MyReplayTV (still had my data pre-loss), 35 guaranteed and not-guaranteed items recorded, some 1/2-hour, most 1-hour, and 3 or 4 were 2-hours long, so it seems reasonable to expect to see a bunch of inodes with xxx.mpg. After my SS decided to delete all shows, I let it record one more show to make certain it still functioned, and THAT is the only mpg that shows up in 15 pages of inodes found when running the command
extract_rtv -p2 -dd >files.txt
The Replay disk is the second of two in my PC. The first disk is the one with my Windows2000 OS on it. Extract_rtv seemed to be able to determine that this second disk was the one to work with, so I'm at a loss why I don't see a bunch of mpgs.
The majority of the inodes, according to the (description) on the end of each line, are "xxxx.FiledArray"s or a whole passle of different cable boxes, ie:
"valid inode (0x01e8) found at cluster 15527 (RadioShackCableBox)" , "valid inode (0x01e8) found at cluster 16340 (ScientificAtlantaCableBox)",
etc.
The only xxxx.mpg is the one show I recorded AFTER the system deleted everything. There are BMPs, TXT files, software.backup files, etc., but only the one mpg.
So tell me, people familiar with UNdeleting shows, did my box not only delete every recorded program but then overwrite them too? Are all my programs lost for good, or are some of these "FiledArray"s my shows???
I'm willing to ship someone the drive if they think they can do better than I have, but I don't know what good that would do. I have 15 pages of files listed, but nothing besides the one program that isn't deleted shows up (as an mpg) when I run extract_rtv. I'm not all hot & bothered about creating VCDs or anything like that, I just want to be able to get my shows off the disk. I'll worry about the rest of that long-term storage stuff later...right now, there are (were?) things on that disk that I can't replace.... *grrr*
Am I missing something (I hope)?
Thanks to anyone who can help...
David.