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DVD recorder - Help required
I'm trying to help a mate who has a LG-RH7500 DVD recorder.
Everything was ok last night, but when he came to turn it on tonight it just keeps replaying the please wait in the recorders window over and over again. I have talked him through the reset procedure but this has made no difference. Is this a known problem, and is there a simple in home fix for this or is this pointing to something more serious? TIA |
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Anything like that I always power it off at the mains. Leave it off for about 10 mins, switch it back on and should be ok.
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Anything like that I always power it off at the mains. Leave it off for about 10 mins, switch it back on and should be ok.
This was my first approach, then tried a reset, neither procedure had any affect. I did a little more searching last night, it does look like the HD has failed. Probably not worth getting it repaired, cheaper to get a new machine. A shame, he said it was a good machine up until now. |
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If it is a hard drive failure I wonder if there is any mileage in trying to swap out the drive? If it is a bog standard IDE drive as used in a PC then you should be able to replace it reasonably easily and cheaply.
Though it might fail if the machine has no way to format a new disk - or hides it in some engineers only menu that mere mortals are not allowed to access
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If it is a hard drive failure I wonder if there is any mileage in trying to swap out the drive? If it is a bog standard IDE drive as used in a PC then you should be able to replace it reasonably easily and cheaply.
Though it might fail if the machine has no way to format a new disk - or hides it in some engineers only menu that mere mortals are not allowed to access ![]() |
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Most don't use PC type drives, but it's worth taking the top off and having a look.
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Most don't use PC type drives, but it's worth taking the top off and having a look.
http://www.addison-net.co.uk/dvd/ EDIT: Located the 80Gb and 250Gb Maxtor IDE hard drives, £30/£50, think I will go for the 250GB. |
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Just found this site, looks like it's pretty straight forward. Just need to locate a Maxtor/Seagate hd.
http://www.addison-net.co.uk/dvd/ EDIT: Located the 80Gb and 250Gb Maxtor IDE hard drives, £30/£50, think I will go for the 250GB. |
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however you may have to do some work in the service settings?.
But I will keep an eye out for this.
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