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Last week, I turned on my TV to find that my 522 was running a process to examine the hard drive. It said it would take about 45 minutes to run, but at that point had been running for 255 minutes! I managed to get it to stop the process (pressed the power button) and when it came back up, it had an even nastier message. Now it informed me it had found errors on the hard drive and it needs to be cleaned (message #526). The cleaning process, it says, will delete all recorded programs. AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

Dish tech support was basically useless. I found this forum and have done some searches and found 3-4 threads by other people with the same problem. Some of the ideas were:
Power-off (pull the plug)
"Protect" programs you don't want deleted.

I've done the pull the plug test and it didn't work.

Has anyone tried the "Protect" idea and did it work?
Has anyone found any way to prevent recorded programming from being deleted by the "Hard Drive Cleaning" process?

Does anyone know what this really means? What does the 522 think is wrong with the hard drive (we've noticed no degredation in performance) and what does it actually do in the cleaning process?

The original message said the cleaning would be done in 7 days if I didn't initiate it. It asks us every morning if we want to do it and we keep selecting no or cancel. If I go to the Diagnostics menu page, the Hard Drive button is selectable and it brings up the same cleaning message. We're trying to put off the inevitable for now.

One kind of interesting thing is that the 522 downloaded L233 a day or two after this error message first appearred.

Also, we have never had less than 30 hours available for recording, so I struggle to believe there is a real fragmentation issue here, but who knows. We've had the unit about 8 months and have noticed significant improvements (less software quirks) as the newer software loads have shown up.

Appreciate the help.

JayBob