Recent content by martinsetal

Sorted! All good with the alternate 500GB Seagate pipeline HD .2, 3.5" ST3500312CS. My new drive is absolutely silent. Regarding the original noisy issue reported. I wasn't descriptive enough! The noise was a really chunky sound very noticable not a low frequency hum from the drive.Thanks for...

As you suspected the 500GB Western Digital Blue, 2.5 is not suitable for the PVR. Several times now I turned the unit on from standby and my previous recordings are missing and the recorder doesn't record or pause a recording. Disconnecting the unit from the mains socket and switching back on...

Thank you! I have noiseless unit now.

Both HDD drives the 500GB Western Digital Blue, 2.5" WD5000LPVX. and a 500GB Seagate pipeline HD .2, 3.5" ST3500312CS. are now working fine! Noise wise I have to mount one properly as I'm testing with the top off and just pushing drives into the HDD socket, with that set up the 2.5 WD is...

NB I did a full factory reset and tested the failed WD blue and reformatted via the units setting instructions.

Sorry! after further checking the replacement drive allowed scheduling but the actual recordings were zero time and an error message (I think) was 'unrecognisable file format' The noisy drive was a 500GB Seagate Video, 3.5" ST500VM000. I replaced it with a 500GB Western Digital Blue, 2.5"...

Thanks for your support. I hadn't any files that I wanted to keep so I just put in a replacement drive and the system did as you say initialised it. Job done. Many thanks!

I'd like to swap my noisy hard drive with a replacement, How do I do this and I'm presuming that if I create an image of the noisy one and restore image to a new drive I should be OK? Has anyone any tips about disassembly, please?