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Help - I bought 2 HDs for Sony Sat-T60
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Posted by: pastb

I bought 2 Hard drives for my Sony Sat-T60 a 40 gig and 60 Gig and the Seller said they were all set up and All I had to do was insert them. When I did insert them, the screen said "hardware problem detected" the only thing I could think of was that the Seller's TIVO was a lifetime subscription which was tied to his unit and when my unit sent the signal, TIVO became quite confused OR the HDs simply do not work.

I brought the HDs to my office - Anyone have any ideas what to do?

Bpastor@georgia-lawyer.com

Posted by: pyropete

If it's error #51 you have a S/N mismatch. Do a "clear and delete everything" system reset and that should take care of it.

pyropete

Posted by: weaknees

pastb,

At what point in the process did you get the error?

pyropete is right - an error #51 happens with the serialization issues with DirecTiVos, but is fixable in the manner he suggested.

It sounds, though, like you might have bad hard drives. Did you buy them on eBay or from a reseller? You might want to put them in your PC and test them - if they're Maxtor drives, PowerMax is the software you'll need.

Thanks,

Michael
www.weaknees.com