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tombet
12-02-2007, 11:55 AM
I have an R10 with lots of recorded shows that seems not to have survived a recent power outage. After power was restored, I get no video (not even "Welcome") at all, nor any front panel lights. I do hear fan noise. I assume it fell victim to a power surge when power came back on. (It is connected to a surge protector, but...)

I have an older working, but non-active R10. (When I did an HD "upgrade" to HR20, Directv didn't ask for it back.) It has a small hard drive, and no shows on it I care about.

Assuming that the problem in my R10 is not the hard disk (which it could be of course), can I swap the hard drive from that R10 into the other and then call to have it activated replacing the other ? Will it just see it and boot up ? Now the old R10 says RCA and the newer one says Directv and they have different size hard drives, so they are not 100% identical, but they seem for all intents and purposes to be the same except for the hard drive size.

(I've searched forum for this question, and see a lot of questions about switching between different models. and the complications of that. But this is between essentially the same model - though with the slight difference I mention.)

Thank you.
wedgecon
12-02-2007, 12:02 PM
You can swap hard drives, but you have to do a clear and delete everything for it to work which will erase all of your shows. I do not know of a way to swap the drives between identical receivers and keep the shows.
tombet
12-02-2007, 01:44 PM
Bummer. Thanks for the info.
tombet
12-03-2007, 05:32 PM
Given your info that with swapping drives I'd lose all my programming, I decided to attact the problem the other way.

Since my failure was after a power outage, I guessed the power supply was most likely culprit. So I took the PSU from the older, smaller, but working unit and put it into the one with large harddrive and all my programs.

Voila. It works fine and I retained all my programs and settings. Life is good.

Thanks for the info - it really did reverse the way I went at this, and saved me a lot of frustration.