Sony Resets when Playback attempted

[JDSchuster]

This morning when I tried to record last nights baseball game to a VHS tape the Sony died and rebooted. It said nothing had been recorded.....so I deleted the game and tried another one.....died again....tried a recording that I knew was there (had watched it once) and got the same thing! Tried restarting from the Set up menu....no help. The DTV function seams to be fine...gets all the channels and is recording (red light) like there is no problem.

From reading the forum...and I am new...sounds like I have a dead hard disk. Its a Weakknees from a couple of years ago and I plan to call them tomorrow. Now the real rub: I've got at least 100 hours of very important stuff on this TiVo and I am really lothe to lose it! Is there any hope? Captain Picard needs my input daily.

Thanks for your time.

J

[litzdog911]

Is your DVR a Sony SAT-T60? The symptom is bit puzzling .... are you saying that "Live TV" works fine, but the box resets as soon as you try playing a recording? This is a bit odd because there's really very little difference between "Live TV" and recordings .... even "Live TV" is viewed through the DVR's buffer.

Try this .... while watching "Live TV", press pause for a minute or so. Now press Play again. Now you're watching a recording delayed by one minute through the DVR's record buffer. Does this work OK?

[JDSchuster]

As time went on, I started having trouble with "live" DTV also...would stutter and freeze but never reset.

I just now tried pausing it and it worked fine. I then did a hard reset....unplugged for 20 minutes and plugged back in and so far it is working again....but I am terrified! I know its going to die soon.

Is there anyway to recover the contents of a hard drive? I have read about services that can recover a hard drive sometimes, for the right price, of course.

J

[litzdog911]

If you act before the current drive totally fails you can easily keep your current recordings by upgrading to a new hard drive. Check out these resources for do-it-yourself instructions or simple to install kits ....

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=25

http://www.weaknees.com/index.html

http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/

http://www.ptvupgrade.com/products/instantcake/

http://www.9thtee.com/

[JDSchuster]

My current unit is a Weakknees upgrade. I will call them and set up a switch out.

Thanks.

J