Success rates on S3 hard drive repair?

Stellablue19

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Success rates on S3 hard drive repair?

06-29-2011, 07:02 AM

Our series3 HD TiVo bit the dust, and running KS54 resulted in a Fail 7 on the extended test. TiVo customer support told me the hard drive is bad.

This box has a lifetime subscription, so we'd like to have it fixed and retain the lifetime.

Has anyone else successfully had this done? How much did it cost in the end?

Thanks!
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WK-Michael

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06-29-2011, 07:14 AM

On swapping out the hard drive in a TiVo Series 3 with one of our pre-formatted kits? Success is pretty close to 100%.

There are occasional other problems that mimic bad drive symptoms, but those are fairly rare, and you have proof of a bad hard drive from your kickstart tests.

Been here a long time . . .
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