Crash Recovery Help

[Ronno6]

For some reason I cannot identify, my HTPC crashed last night. It kept attempting to reboot, went through checkdisk routines, etc. Bottom line,after recovering, SageTV, which was running at the time of the crash, was missing the analog tuner completely, and all the recordings are now in the Videos section of the Media Center section, complete with commercials that had previously been removed by Showanalyzer .
I set the tuner back up, but was getting a bunch of "no data" in the program guide. So, I did a sample recording, which Sage did and commercials were edited ok, only the program name was "no data."
I seized upon this as a good time to upgrade, downloading v 6.6.1 this morning.
The channels were rescanned and EPG info restored, including for the recorded show ( commercial editing was gone, however.) So I edited the show with VideoReDo, saved the file and deleted the old one. The edited file, which previously would have been available under "Sage Recordings" was now shifted to the Videos section of Media Center like all the others.
The directory for the recordings has not changed, and is still the same directory listed in setup. How do I put them back into "Recordings"?


Computer:
MB Asus M2NPV-VM
Processor AMD M2 Athlon 4.2ghz
Ram 4gig
Video Nvidia 7600GS

[SWKerr]

Do you have a copy of the wiz.bin prior to the crash? Even after the crash do you have a wiz.bak recovered from the Sage install directory dated pre-crash.

[Ronno6]

Sadly, no. I did a Windows system restore to a point about a week ago. Would that help?

[robogeek]

Originally Posted by Ronno6

Sadly, no. I did a Windows system restore to a point about a week ago. Would that help?

You may have lost EPG data and recording metadata for everything that was recorded from the point of the system restore a week ago. First thing to do would be to make a copy of the SageTV directory to prevent any additional damage to the current configuration. If any of the steps below make things worse, all you have to do is shutdown SageTV and copy the SageTV backup directory back over the top of the SageTV directory and everything should be back to the way it was.

After making a copy of the SageTV directory, make sure you have your recording directories defined as they were prior to the crash (Setup->Detailed Setup->General->Video Recording Directories). After verifying the directories are correct, exit and shutdown SageTV (both the service and client). Look in the SageTV directory (where the SageTV executable is located) to see if there are other wiz*.* files, looking for any that are nearest the time just prior to the crash. If you find one, delete the existing wiz.bin and rename the other wiz*.* file to wiz.bin. Cross your fingers and restart SageTV. If the recordings still show up as imported videos or if you can't find a more suitable wiz.bin backup to use, follow the Advanced Method listed in this post: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...99&postcount=2

It may not be able to recover all of the recordings because you probably lost some crucial data in the wiz.bin database doing the system restore, but it should recover everything that was recorded prior to the system restore point that you restored from.

[Ronno6]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot.