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BobbyD1120
04-25-2007, 06:52 PM
Hello all, Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am new here and apologize in advance if there are instructions on this somewhere. I looked around in the forum and was unable to find the answers.

Well, I just received a SIR-4080R from my parents since they are no longer using it. It was working perfectly fine in there home 3 days ago when they unhooked it and shipped it to me. I called DTV and activated the receiver, seemed to activate and I was able to view channels. But it was EXTREMELY slow to respond to any requests such as guide, change channels anything like that. So I unplugged it to reset it, it started to reload and now has the GSOD. :(

Im guessing the HDD has failed, possible from shipping. Can I just purchase a new HDD and then load the TIVO software onto it?? How would I go about doing this?

Thank you and I greatly appreciate any help that can be provided.

JimSpence
04-25-2007, 06:58 PM
...Can I just purchase a new HDD and then load the TIVO software onto it?? How would I go about doing this? ...Yes, you can. There have been quite a few requests here lately about getting a new hard drive and re-imaging it. Do a search for InstantCake and look through the Upgrade forum. There are also a few online forum sponsors that will sell pre-installed drives.

John T Smith
04-25-2007, 07:12 PM
The upgrade forum reached from...
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=24