Hard disc cannot be initialised on Hitachi HDR253?
After changing TV because of a TV fault found the Digital Recorder sent a message onto new TV screen 'Hard Disc not initialised'.
Cannot access library & timings but can set up rest of instructions in Menu
To initialise the Hitachi HDR253 hard disk drive
MENU >> Setup >> Recordings >> Format disk (the default PIN is 0000)
When you format the disk you will lose all your recordings. However, this has already occured and is probably due to a disk index corruption rather than a fault with the hardware.
The Hitach HDR253 is a T825 model made by a company called vestel. For additional trouble shooting also see the digihome forum at digital spy
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=171
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January 2013
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