Recent content by johnds

See my post about my hr-21-700 pausing on its own. It was the hard drive going bad. This may or may not be your problem. Johnds

24 hours later. I really like this new drive. All my problems have disappeared. This drive makes menu scrolling much faster than the drive that came with this hr21-700 not to mention the big increase in storage. It cost $109 dollars to fix my problem. Since this dvr is only 18 months old, I...

Here is the link that I followed to install the external drive they talked about. greg hughes - dot net - Upgraded my DirecTV HR21 HD-DVR to 1TB of hard drive storage The drive was $109 delivered from newegg Good luck, Johnds

I just installed the 1tb hard drive talked about in this link. This forum will not let me post the link till I have 3 posts. I will try again on my next post. Took 10 minutes before I had my picture back. I lost all my favorite like they said. This drive really increased the speed on the...

I have an external hard drive being delivered today. I will hook it up and let you know if that solves the problem. Johnds

Hi Folks, I am new here. My hr21-700 is pausing on its own very frequently now. My signal is great and the internal temp is 113. It stops for about 20 seconds and then takes off again. I can rewind and play again and nothing is missing. I suspect the hard drive. Is it possible to hook up...