well, my hr20-700 decided to puke the hard drive yesterday. i got home and it was scanning it to repair, left it alone all night and tonight it was finally at 100%, over 24 hours later! it rebooted, then attempted the saem thing. i powered it down for 10-15 minutes, then when i brough tit back up it shot thru the scan, showed 100% passed, then rebooted. and of course, started scanning again. i tried to catch office depot before they closed to just get an external eSATA drive, but missed it by about 10 minutes. of course no one else here has any externals in anythign but USB.
good news is that D is shipping me another HDDVR. i informed them i use the OTA for my locals since they are not availble on spot beam here. i dunno if i will get another HR20, or if it will be a newer model and the external tuner. CS did say i would have OTA capability, but could not tell me which way. only thing i paid for is the shipping, so if it is the external that is ok as long as it is free.
now my real question, if i put an eSATA drive on the new one and the new RX were to fail down the road, will the drive keep my settings and to do lists if i move it over an dplug to a future replacement HDDVR? or will that DVR reformat it immediately?
good news is that D is shipping me another HDDVR. i informed them i use the OTA for my locals since they are not availble on spot beam here. i dunno if i will get another HR20, or if it will be a newer model and the external tuner. CS did say i would have OTA capability, but could not tell me which way. only thing i paid for is the shipping, so if it is the external that is ok as long as it is free.
now my real question, if i put an eSATA drive on the new one and the new RX were to fail down the road, will the drive keep my settings and to do lists if i move it over an dplug to a future replacement HDDVR? or will that DVR reformat it immediately?
