repairing Hughes DirecTiVo

[darren_s]

I have an old Hughes SD DirecTiVo. 99% sure the hard drive failed on it. Is it worth fixing? How do I go about it? Isn't there someplace I can send it to to get it repaired?

Sorry to be asking dumb questions. I haven't kept up with any of this stuff for several years now.

 

[dodge]

These guys are good, but expensive, it might not worth being reapired as Directv give the dvr's away for almost nothing now.

CCS Corporation Direct TV, HD and PVR Satellite Receiver Repair

 

[Zynergi]

It uses a regular sata or esata drive, so you could just get a 80gig or better and replace, it should reformat the drive and install what it needs.

You will need some TORX bits and a phillips driver, once you pull it out you will find out the type of drive, not hard at all to do. Pop a 320g in there and never run out of space

 

[Bob Nielsen]

With that DVR, you would need a hard drive which is already set up for Tivo (the Directv non-Tivos will format themselves). Weaknees has replacement drives, but you might get a new non-Tivo DVR from Directv for less.

 

[cybok0]

I have an old Hughes SD DirecTiVo. 99% sure the hard drive failed on it. Is it worth fixing? How do I go about it? Isn't there someplace I can send it to to get it repaired?

Sorry to be asking dumb questions. I haven't kept up with any of this stuff for several years now.

If you feel like taking out the hard drive, and replacing it, here is the "How To" guide, it tells you what you need, plus how to do it.

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