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  • Do I really have to wipe everything out?

    My HDVR2 has a flaky tuner (swapped the cables around to verify). The hard drive in my brother's HDVR2 cratered some time ago. Since he has moved on to the DTV-style receiver, I acquired his HDVR2 to replace mine. Received and activated a new access card for the acquired unit, swapped the hard drive (a less than 2 year-old weaKnees 142 hr upgrade) and fired it up.

    Message in the "Now Showing" area says I have a hardware problem - can't record or watch recorded programs. Restarted the unit and still get Error #51. DirecTV tells me error #51 requires that I completely erase all settings/content on this drive and start all over again. Is this true? If so, why?

    If not (or partially) true, what can I get away with NOT erasing? I have 30+ hrs of stuff I really want to watch.

    Thanks.

  • #2
    You can read more about it here:

    http://www.tivopedia.com/error-51-hardware-error.php

    But, short answer: yes, it's true.
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      Drat! Thanks for the help Michael. Guess I'll shove the drive back in the other unit and get busy "watching off" all that content.... then start over. 8^)

      jri

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