HDVR2 Died, help to replace with SD-DVR80

[dmont]

My Hughes HDVR2 hard drive died. After researching on these forums, I bought an SD-DVR80 with a Direct TV card. It only shows 35 hours of recording time, so I'm assuming the seller replaced the HD with a 40 gig drive.

I plugged in the SD-DVR80 and went through the setup using the included card, but the local channels were not there. Also, the next day I couldn't get anything in and there was a message stating that I need to call Direct TV. I suppose I probably need to register the new card in my name.

From my research on these forums, it seems that the HDVR2 and the SD-DVR40 and 80 are exactly the same. I'm wondering if I can take the Hard Drive out of the newly bought SD-DVR80 and put it in the HDVR2 with my original DT card.

Any advice on this?

Dave

[Dodge boy]

I for one have not heard of a sd-dvr80 the r10 and a phillips model are the only 80 gig-75 hr unit I know of. That doesn't mean i am not wrong. People have added bigger hard drives, I believe they hook them to their computers (running unix?) beyond what I want to do.... weaknees.com has all you'd need or Jimspence? and Earl are also helpfull about this stuff. You might want to ask in the under ground forum. ;)

[dmont]

It's a Hughes Direct TV unit. I looked on the back of the unit, it has as Model # SD-DVR80. Manufacture date is Sept '04.

Since I'm new I can't post web links yet, but if you google the part number you'll find it's exactly like the SD-DVR40 but with an 80 Gig hard drive.


Dave

[Arcady]

You can't move the drive to another box (unless the unit has been hacked.) You need to have DirecTV activate the new receiver and card.

[dmont]

Do you know if Direct TV charges anything to do this? I wonder if I should reference the card that I have from my old Tivo instead of referencing the one that is in the new unit that I bought.

[heySkippy]

My HDVR2 lost a tuner a few months ago and I replaced it with a Phillips DirecTiVo that is obviously the same as an HDVR2 under the skin (controls, plugs, etc) and I transferred the large drive from my old to the new.

I had to do a guided setup and then call DirecTV to activate it. It didn't cost anything.

[dmont]

Interesting.....I activated the SD-DVR80 and found that Tuner 2 is bad. It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, and then we get the blue window box that states "no signal on sat input 2".

I tried installing the hard drive from the SD-DVR80 into the HDVR2 and it worked fine for live viewing, but when I try to record or press "list" it says that there is a "hardward problem that needs to be addressed". So, I can't record any programs.

I wonder if a full system reset would solve the problem...maybe the HDVR2 needs to format the drive or something?

Dave

[MajorTomSawyer]

Try a "clear and delete everything".

It is about a 3-4 process, but it should reformat your hard drive and possibly correct the issue.