Sometimes these fixes are so simple that when the device is back in working condition it’s almost annoying to realize that there’s nothing more to do than to put the device in use. This was one of those cases. The word of my hobby had started to spread and one day I received a message from a friend on Facebook about DVR that had taken a habit of losing all recordings from its hard drive. Once I got this top field TF500PVRc in my hands I started to look for a fault in hard drive itself since it seemed to the most logical place to start. I took the casing apart and removed the HDD for reformatting on a PC. Since the DVR was new to me and already broken I saw no point in trying to save any remainders of the pre-existing recordings. Before doing anything else I thought it would be easiest to let the DVR format its own hard drive. As a theory this was a brilliant one. Unfortunately that was all it ever amounted to; a theory. Each and every time I tried to format the drive it got stuck at 14%. After inspecting the hard drive a little more it became abundantly clear the hard drive had come to the end of its road. In my collection of spare parts I had a hard drive suitable for this device so I replaced the old one with it. The replacement was a little smaller in capacity but it was sufficient. When I proceeded to power the DVR on it asked me if I wanted it to format the hard drive. After the formatting I had myself a fully functioning DRV by pretty much no cost at all.
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