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| Topic: | I knew it was gonna happen and did nothing to prevent/prepare for it. This thread has 11 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Wednesday July 13, 2005 at 21:25 |
installer_574 Long Time Member |
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The hard drive on my Motorola DCT 6200 DVR died. It had about 30 unwatched episodes of my wifes favorite soap on it. Needless to say she was pissed. Does this happen to anyone else? What can we do to prevent it? I don't know about you guys, but I do not want to get the trouble calls from my customers when it happens to them. I hate playing cable guy, even though I once was one.
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Go phuq yourself! |
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| Post 2 made on Wednesday July 13, 2005 at 22:56 |
mr2channel Select Member |
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On 07/13/05 21:25 ET, installer_574 said...
I hate playing cable guy, even though I once was
one. what a horrible thing to have to admit :)
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What part of "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." do you not understand? |
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| Post 3 made on Thursday July 14, 2005 at 00:26 |
Steve Garn Senior Member |
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The coolest thing about this deal is that us CI guys are out of the loop on this one. Aren't you glad you're not selling Cable DVR's? It's as sure as death the drive is going to have the pie at about year two.
This is one of the many excellent reasons we let DirecTV and Dish do the dishes as well.
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Manuals?! We don't need no stinking manuals! a.. er.. |
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| Post 4 made on Thursday July 14, 2005 at 08:28 |
RUDDY2 Long Time Member |
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Buy a DVD-R to archive shows from your DVR to harddisc. Yes, these DVR's will die after a few years as will DiretTV's DVR units. At least you don't own your Cable company's DVR, they will replace that for free. DirecTV on the other hand, the expense is yours.
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| Post 5 made on Thursday July 14, 2005 at 08:41 |
rlustig Advanced Member |
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I had my first DirecTivo (Sony SAT-T60) for almost 6 years before the drive went south. I called Dtv and they sent me new one at no charge with free install ( not needed, but oh well) and a couple of programing incentives.
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| Post 6 made on Thursday July 14, 2005 at 09:38 |
juliejacobson CE Pro Magazine |
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| Post 7 made on Thursday July 14, 2005 at 18:14 |
vwpower44 Super Member |
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What does the acronym NAS mean?
Mike
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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish... |
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| Post 8 made on Thursday July 14, 2005 at 20:11 |
ddarche Mr. RemoteQuest |
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Network Attached Storage
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Dave D'Arche http://RemoteQuest.comFine Home Theater Remote Controls & Solutions - Programming services for most remotes |
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| OP | Post 9 made on Thursday July 14, 2005 at 20:12 |
installer_574 Long Time Member |
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On 07/14/05 00:26 ET, Steve Garn said...
Aren't
you glad you're not selling Cable DVR's? We sell the (HD/DVR)service for the cable company, and stock their boxes for our installs. So naturally our clients call us first when they have cable problems.
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Go phuq yourself! |
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| Post 10 made on Thursday July 14, 2005 at 21:53 |
Could have been worse. it could have been 30 of your favourite sporting events
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| Post 11 made on Friday July 15, 2005 at 00:04 |
Mitch57 Active Member |
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If you want to attempt to recover the recordings the hard drive may still be readable. It would require taking the drive out of the DVR and putting it into a PC as a slave drive. Then you can take the files and transfer them to another media storage device.
It's a long shot and the drive may be totally unreadable (Toasted) but I often have varrying degrees of success when attempting to recover files from a crashed hard drive. You could also try running the drive manufactures diagnostics (or a generic diagnostic tool such as WD Diag) to attempt to repair the drive. These diagnostics are free from the manufactures web site.
It may be more work then your willing to tackle but it's on option.
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| Post 12 made on Friday July 15, 2005 at 09:09 |
Wagz Long Time Member |
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On 07/15/05 00:04 ET, Mitch57 said...
If you want to attempt to recover the recordings
the hard drive may still be readable. It would
require taking the drive out of the DVR and putting
it into a PC as a slave drive. Then you can take
the files and transfer them to another media storage
device. No can do. Moto uses a proprietary filesystem and partition map.
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