Startup Code to initiate a Hard Drive Scan

Press select on your remote when you see the screen saying the unit is checking hardware.

SomeRandomIdiot said:

What is the startup up procedure to manually force a Hard Drive Scan.

My attempts to locate it via search have come up blank and it's been over 2 years since I last used it - and as thus I do not remember the combination.

Seems one of the items was holding a button on the actual DVR @ startup but just cannot remember which.

TIA

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IIRC, that no longer works. However, when the DVR is starting up and you see the running self-test screen press the select button. That will take you to the system diagnostics. You'll be able to run a hard drive test from there.

Mike

I believe it has become Automatic as my DVR performed a surface disc scan without asking me for any input and it wiped out all of my Settings, Recordings, Series Links, etc. as if I had just installed a brand new hard drive.

Bummer but at least it is working now but I won't put anything I want to keep very long on it as it will probably need another new hard drive within 6 months.

Once it finds Bad Sectors and Repairs them you are okay for a little while but then other Bad Sectors show up as the plate layer is thinning due to age. :nono2:

Mike Bertelson said:

IIRC, that no longer works. However, when the DVR is starting up and you see the running self-test screen press the select button. That will take you to the system diagnostics. You'll be able to run a hard drive test from there.

Mike

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Record and > [on the front panel] during boot "used to" format the drive. This was changed to a disk scan, "but" it doesn't work with the HR24, due most likely to the different type of front panel.