Hard drive swap question??

rcaldwel · 08-28-2006, 07:36 PM

Hi all. I have a phillips Direct Tivo which has a broken power supply and I have a hughes Direct Tivo that has a dead HD. It just died today. I put the phillips in the hughes and it booted up. It however tells me there is a hardware issue and to reboot. It will not let me record. Is there anyway for me to reover this HD? What do I need to do?

Thanks for your time and your help
Roger

Arcady · 08-28-2006, 07:41 PM

Leave the hard drives where they were, and swap the power supply instead.

rcaldwel · 08-28-2006, 08:30 PM

Well I did think of that but I was trying to avoid the phone call to Direct TV to move the cards around. Seems like it took forever the last time I had to do that.

wscannell · 08-28-2006, 08:48 PM

Assuming that they are both series 2 units, you should be able to swap hard drives. You need to do a "clear and delete everything" to get the drive to work without the error.

mr.unnatural · 08-29-2006, 07:13 AM

They would have to both be the same version or the drive swap never would have worked and the DTivo would not have booted up. A series 2 DTivo drive would never get past the welcome screen if you attempted to boot it in a series 1 DTivo or vice versa. The Clear & delete everything will work on either version to clear the hardware error #51 mesage.

rcaldwel · 08-29-2006, 10:22 AM

I am in the clear and delete process now. Fingers crossed