How To Re-Initialize The Hard Drive on DVR

**ralfyguy** · 12-29-2007 12:18 PM

Re-initialize Hard Drive doesn't work on the 722. It just does a timer dump.

**DishGeek75** · 01-08-2008 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by ralfyguy

Re-initialize Hard Drive doesn't work on the 722. It just does a timer dump.

It did on mine. All recordings and settings were gone.

**ralfyguy** · 01-08-2008 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by DishGeek75

It did on mine. All recordings and settings were gone.

If I do it exactly as described, it won't do it on my 722. What receiver do you have and what exact steps did YOU take?

**Smith, P.** · 01-08-2008 07:53 PM

Time to training your fingers

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**ralfyguy** · 01-08-2008 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by Smith, P.

Time to training your fingers

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I've done it five times, and as soon as I hit play the second time it says that it'll clear the timers, and reboots. It doesn't work on the 722, I did it on my 622 and it worked there.

**Smith, P.** · 01-08-2008 11:26 PM

Sorry, hard to believe; both DVRs sharing _same_ FW.

**iKramerica** · 01-14-2008 01:13 AM

I can't get this to work on my 522 either. Won't go past the info step. So can't reset NVRAM either.

**dfergie** · 01-14-2008 01:34 AM

It took multiple tries to work on my 622..but it did...

**ralfyguy** · 01-14-2008 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by dfergie

It took multiple tries to work on my 622..but it did...

So you did it exactly like in the first post: Menu-6-3-Info-Right-Left-Play-Play-Recall?

When I do it, after pushing PLAY the 2nd time, it prompts me with a timer dump, and then reboots after 5 seconds. After that, it comes back up with the Acquiring Satellite screen and then updates the EPG. That's all it does for me. I won't even get past pushing PLAY the 2nd time.

**Murph74** · 02-22-2008 08:52 PM

I can vouch for Ralfyguy-- having the same problem on my 722. Dish is sending me a new unit, but was hoping to fix it with a re-init. My problem is a 311 message box telling me a serious problem has been detected with my hard drive with an additional error code of 0521. The sate of the box won't let me turn channels on TV 2, nor does it have any DVR functionality due to the HD corruption.

The NVram reset worked for me, but got the same timer dump as reported earlier by Ralfyguy.