Catastrophic Failure

[pduncan67]

Well, I knew better but... maybe someone will learn from my mistake.

I had set my default video recording directory to a folder off the root of C. Everything was fine until I went out of town. (I generally clean up and/or archive recordings to another drive at night). When I got home from my trip, my system was acting a bit 'off' so I rebooted. Once the system came back I realized what happened - my hard drive was completely full.

Bad news: my old windows profile is now corrupt, and so is Windows. All that 'tweaking' I have done to get GBPVR working is now gone. :mad:

It looks like I need to reinstall Windows because now I get various errors and loss of basic functionality (i.e. control panel crashes explorer.exe, changes to application settings are not retained, etc).

Take my advice - have your recordings go to a different partition.

Question: I had a heck of a time (mostly trial and error) getting GBPVR working. Is/are there configuration file(s) that I can grab from my current system so when I reinstall Windows and GBPVR, the setup and configuration of GBPVR won't take so long? I am not necessarily concerned with my recordings, but I am fretting about setting up my EPG, capture device, and playback settings again.

Also - for the users who do have their system configured like mine was - is there a way to prevent this from happening (e.g. stop the recording service if the hard disk surpasses a threshold)?

Anyway - hopefully a noob will see this and learn from my mistake.
(I guess I know what I am doing this weekend...)

[HarryH3]

The config.xml file in the gbpvr directory contains many of your settings. You may also need to copy over your old UpdateEPG.bat file if you had it customized to get your EPG file. The files I use for my EPG download are in the Third Part folder. Those should get you started in the right direction.

[soccerdad]

Well for sure grab config.xml. If possible, grab the entire gbpvr directory. It really depends on what you have configured as to what you will need. Batch files, scans for your 1600 tuner, data bases, etc. Also try to find any special muxes or codecs that you have been using. If they worked in the past, then a newer version you find may not work.

Good luck. Sorry.

[martint123]

Sorry to hear of your pain - I would modify your statement

Take my advice - have your recordings go to a different partition.

To "Take my advice - have your recordings go to a different drive."

This also makes it simpler to use something like Acronis to make image backups of Windows and Applications and in theory makes a full restore of the system - less your recordings - a 10 to 20 minute task.

(sorry, it's too easy to say this in hindsight).

[pduncan67]

I was having playback issues when I used a different drive
(please see http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post329030

I think it may be a hardware limitation of my system (PCI/IDE instead of PCIe/SATA)

[observer_11]

Sorry to hear of your pain - I would modify your statement


To "Take my advice - have your recordings go to a different drive."

This also makes it simpler to use something like Acronis to make image backups of Windows and Applications and in theory makes a full restore of the system - less your recordings - a 10 to 20 minute task.

(sorry, it's too easy to say this in hindsight).

I second Martin's advice. Also much easier to replace/upgrade the drives using images.

I think many of us can relate to your pain though, maybe not exactly same circumstances but we have all probably encountered at least one major setback in the wonderful world of computers and software. :o