I've tried to unplug all connections and then reconnect and nothing has helped. I am so stuck! Help!
2006-11-09 05:18:39 · 4 answers · asked by h2opolochix 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TiVO & DVRs
The previous poster is right. It's usually cheaper to buy a new unit than to try and repair the one you have. What you will sacrifice though is the familiar TIVO interface you have been accustomed to. After DirecTV and TIVO severed their agreement, most users have not been happy with the DVRs that DirecTV has been selling. How comfortable are you with tinkering with a computer? If you are comfortable with it, or know someone who is, you may have options. You can try and repair your disk by using a utility from the disk manufacturer to try and repair the drive. or you could just purchase a new, normally larger drive, and use that. The tricky part is getting the original "image" that your unit came with. I have used the Tivo Community forum at http://www.tivocommunity.com for years and have repaired units for various friends. There is a website detailing the process at http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/
Hope this helps.
2006-11-09 09:16:42 · answer #1 · answered by William P 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh I am so sorry, this happened to me after I had mine for 4 months and they told me the hard drive was fried. It cost more to fix it then buy a new one. Best Buy had new ones on sale for half price since they were stopping selling the Tivo/dvr for directv.
You can get one off of ebay for fairly cheap though, or you can have my old one, if you are in CT.
It is a Phillips R-10 the last model made before they stopped partnering with Tivo and it holds 80 hours.
2006-11-09 06:43:57 · answer #2 · answered by Stephanie is awesome!! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
unplug the power and plug it back in. If that does not fix it then it either the hard drive is bad or the OS is corrupt. That happened to me when I put a 200GB HD in mine and screwed up the OS, I was able to do a "what do you call it" Factory reset and go thru the out of box set up again and that fixed it
2006-11-09 07:41:16 · answer #3 · answered by jojobo 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check with these sites. You may be able to get a replacement drive of higher capacity for about the price of a new DVR.
http://www.weaknees.com/
http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/
http://www.9thtee.com/tivoupgrades.htm
You may be able to get a new drive you install yourself.
2006-11-10 13:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋