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Posted on May 05, 2008

HDD Error My HDD was happily recording from the TV when it froze and now all I can get is HDD error and a message that says the HDD info is incorrect. ANy fixes for this?

  • Anonymous Jun 10, 2008

    my DVR 530H gave me an error message saying "HDD ERROR" and switches to DVD mode and i cant even watch a dvd cause of it aswell. :(
    Can i take the hdd out and format it on my pc? and then install it back to the unit?



  • Anonymous Aug 27, 2008

    I have the same problem on my Pioneer DVR-530H-S, which has been running ok till few days ago. Any idea?

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Since my last post, I have rectified the problem.....

1) I opened the unit to find a seagate HDD
2) I downloaded the Seatools in dos format and burned the image on to a cd rom
3)Taking out the HDD from my recorder,I hooked it up to another pc and ran the seatools disk @ bootup.
I tried for 2 hrs to repair the bloody thing ( 160 gb!) so i gave up and tried to erase the full HDD...which worked.
4) on my laptop i navigated to Pioneers site and found my recorder along with instructions and a zip file that contained 2 files.
5)After reading the destructions erm i mean instructions ;) I put the HDD back into the recorder and followed the instructions again..

Crossing my fingers i turned the recorder back on and to my amazement i was able to have more functionality..BUT... it says my HDD name error so I ran the disk again and wallah! all worked XDDDD

Here are the links

http://www.pioneer.co.uk/uk/content/support/support/update/DVR.html check if your model is there.

http://download.seagate.com/seatools/registration.nsf/desktop?openform Just add your email too download.

I hope you fix yours XD

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