Cleaning and deleting everything

For what it’s worth, a clear and delete everything on my HD with a 2TB drive took a good 4 hours.

 

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Definitely should not take that long. Was it working correctly and was it fully up to date before you tried the clear and delete? You might end up needing a current image to restore to the drive. And perhaps do a diagnostic to check the drive for errors.

 

At that point, I'd consider the thing to be boned. Do you have a USB drive connection kit? Easiest way might be to request an image and re-image the drive from your PC.

 

S3s can be tricky, especially if setup for cable. Can end up in loop if you run a clear and delete everything. Image not that tough but you'd have to search in the forums, there is one person who has images for nearly every Tivo every made. Diagnostics, hook up to computer and run diagnostics. Make sure you don't let the computer format the drive though, it will probably think the drive is unformatted, it's not, it's formatted for Tivo in Linux.

 

Not an S3, unless you do it yourself (yeah there is a place that would do it but would probably cost 4-5x the value of the box.) Not that tough, just need to search the group. S3 worth maybe $50 IF it has lifetime service, if not parts only.

 

Since you are doing clear and delete, pull the drive and install a fresh image... maybe a new harddrive too(?)
If you post the TCD # a fellow forum member will send you a link to down load the image.

Another thing since this is a S3 model.
The capacitors in the power supply are probably bad, which will cause all sorts of problems.

The only other thing I can think of, if there is a tuning adapter connected; disconnect it.