[TechAssist] Re: Sony TIVO SVR-2000 - harddisk problems
- From: Gary McCartney <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:37:07 -0500
I don't know about the formatting type used, but it may be possible to
manually type in the hex codes for the boot sectors on a new hard drive
(must be same model as the old one)using Norton Disk Edit. It is a disk
editor program, DOS based. I have used it to save the life of a corrupt
hard drive. I had two hard drives exact same model. I went into the boot
sector on the good drive and recorded all the hex digits, then typed in
the same digits on the corrupt drive. It worked, I even got all my data
back and I didn't have to format the drive either. Down side is it took
2 or 3 hours to do it.
Gary McCartney
McCartney Electronics
Guelph Ontario Canada
Est. 1984
email: gary (at) number63.ca
Roger G./Mr Fix-It wrote:
> Item Sony SVR-2000 TIVO
> Problem - Customer complains hard disk 'skips'.
> The drive is a Maxtor D540X - standard 40gb IDE drive.
> Anyone know type of formatting used in these units?
> Was unable to bring it up on my desktop. Could replace it if formatting
> was available.
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