avtech eagleeyes 4CH H.264 DVR (KPD674B-B) reboots automaticall

[cybercontroler 0]

Hello, I got a power interruption, UPS fails, and now my (avtech eagleeyes 4CH H.264 DVR (KPD674B-B)) reboots automatically (loop) in the initialization process, I thinks when it try to mount the hard drive partition, if I unplugged the hard drive it doesn´t reboots, I plugged the hard drive in a PC and it is working OK, it have a ext3 partition, with contain files like: /20110603/video/1/1.stream, in my case I think that is a logical problem could be fixed by doing a chkdsk linux´s equivalent, but I am not a linux person, and I am worry about losing some videos I need, like you said, also in avtech FAQs said, it is not possible open videos in a PC, only in DVR, but it doesn´t startup, what could I do? do you think if I copy out the data I need to another hard drive or clone it, in case the check disk process fails and I lose data, could I copy back the files in the disk to try recover?, I don´t know, sure not way to a exporting videos? any other ideas please help

Thanks for what you could help

Regards

[Leohuangdi 0]

Hi Cyber,

 

That is not true, it's possible to open videos also in your PC, you only need the right software. Put your hard disk in the PC (don't format it), then open this program:

 

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_Tf3Yb1yhhROWI2ZWU2MmQtZTE3ZC00NjVlLTgwNjItNzBlNjk3ZmQzZDky&hl=en_US&authkey=CP2o9toI

 

In the first page you have to choose the Hard disk, once you select you can choose the videos to play and you can also do the backup of the files to your PC.

 

When you finish to copy all of them i suggest to format the HDD with the computer and check if the DVR is working well now (also check if you can see the videos in your PC).

 

Leo

[cybercontroler 0]

DO NO TRY TO FIX THE PARTITION WITH THIS COMMAND

 

Hello, here is what had happened: I googled and asked to a friend of mine how knows Linux, for a equivalent command to CHKDKS, and recommendations, he told me to use FSCK.EXT3, I tried automatic parameter, but the command return a error said that the drive had too much problem and I need use manual, so I give a parameter for auto-answer YES to every question, I don’t remember now the parameter, well it had been more than 7 hours fixing, it never finish, and I could not wait any more, so I break the process, I could see that in the last hours it was writing very much recovered data to a folder called lost+found, so, even I am not a Linux person, I think even if I would wait until finish, I am almost sure the data was going to be unusable or too hard to use, like happen with *.chk files that CHKDSK does, so please if it happen to you, DO NO TRY TO FIX THE PARTITION WITH THIS COMMAND, but I did something did worked for me, by that moment I had no got the LEO reply.

 

BTW, thanks so much LEO for reply I still had not tried the program because the DVR is working and is little hard to stop it because the boss get a little nervous, but I will try it as soon as I can, and I am almost sure it will work, thanks again.

 

Then what I did was:

 

- Before I try to fix the partition I copied the folder containing date I needed to check, to the PC hard drive, using a mini-Linux from Hiren's BootCD, (for doing it you will need to mount source and destination partitions, then copy and paste)

 

- Using a partition manager included in the mini-Linux from Hiren's BootCD, I just formatted the DVR’s hard drive EXT3 and SWAP partitions (keeping EXT3 and SWAP formats)

 

- Then I copied back the data to the DVR’s hard drive.

 

- “et voilà” now the DVR is working and I could see and download the videos I needed

 

Hope it help

 

Regards

 

P.D. sorry not good English is not my mother language