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1. WD DRIVE UTILITIES STUCK AT 90 HOW TO
2. WD DRIVE UTILITIES STUCK AT 90 SOFTWARE
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That's a slightly more difficult fix than hard drive replacement, but not all that hard. Some had inferior capacitors used, which are starting to give trouble now. Weaknees, who help pay to keep this site online, are a popular source.ĭvrupgrade, who apparently have been absorbed by weaknees but maintain a separate site, offer a kind of "instant TiVo hard drive" cd, and, I think, drop in replacement drives also.Īnd there's a guy on eBay about whom nice things have been said.įirst you need to establish that it is the hard drive that's at fault and not something else. The easiest and by far most expensive way is to buy a drive that's already ready. The Blacks also have that nice 5 year warranty.įortunately for me Thailand hadn't flooded at the time and the sale price was about half what they're asking now.Ĭlick to expand.It's not all that difficult. Those 3 drives have been running 24/7 in a couple of S2 DT TiVos for almost a year now with no hiccups, but since the Caviar Blacks run at 7200rpm, and do get rather warm, I've got extra fans in there with them. If you have occasion to take the top off of the TiVo again anytime soon, I'd love to know what model they're putting in that box now.

The 2 that came out of the local store had WD10000LSRTL on the bottom of the box, but the one they shipped had WDBAAZ0010HNC-NRSN on the bottom. This time last year (Black Friday sale), I got 3 1TB Caviar Blacks from Best Buy, 1 in store, one purchased online and picked up in store, and one purchased online and shipped to my house.Īll 3 were the same drive as far as Best Buy and their Black Friday sale price listing were concerned, all 3 were in fact the WD1001FALS (that's the model of the actual drive, printed on the sticker on top of the drive). This is also true of the external enclosures with drives which they sell as well. The Live cd is handy to have a copy of even if you don't own a TiVo.Ĭlick to expand.That's the number on the bottom of the box, but I was hoping for the number on the top of the drive as well, since WD, among others, can't be counted on to always put the same drive in a box with the same model number on the box. You might want to go to and familiarize yourself with the MFS Live cd and the WinMFS program.

However, often an inability to kickstart indicates an inability of the TiVo to communicate with the drive or the drive no longer being recognized by the TiVo as a TiVo drive. If that's an original S3 (TCD648250), I think it can't run a 2TB the way an S3 HD or S3 HD XL can, so you might want to grab one of those 1TB Seagates on sale at Best Buy this week, and if nothing's wrong with the drive you might want to grab one anyway, 'cause it looks like hard drive supplies and prices aren't getting back to normal till late next spring, and having a spare hard drive on hand could come in handy.

WD DRIVE UTILITIES STUCK AT 90 SOFTWARE

While you've got the cover off to examine the power supply, hook the drive up to the computer and boot with a cd or floppy with the drive manufacturer's own diagnostic software and run the long test.

WD DRIVE UTILITIES STUCK AT 90 HOW TO

Without being able to access Kickstart, I'm a bit weary of purchasing a new HDD which may or may not fix the errors I'm now experiencing.Īny suggestions on where I should start? I haven't yet cracked the case to the Tivo, but I'm fairly adept at soldering and working with electronics so measuring voltages and replacing capacitors or the HDD aren't intimidating to me.Ĭlick to expand.Read the wikipedia article on "capacitor plague" and also go to to learn how to spot the sometimes subtle signs of capacitor disease of the power supply. Would a bad power supply (or capacitors on the power supply) prevent the Kickstart tests from running? I suppose the 5V output could be working allowing the Tivo to power up, but the 12V supply to the HDD could be bad which causes a reboot - or something like that. Is there something I'm missing about running the Kickstart tests? I've looked at multiple sources on the web and I believe I'm doing everything right. I have a few questions for others that may have experienced such problems. The Tivo just keeps going through the "Welcome! Powering up." loop as if I did nothing. I then punch in the Kickstart code, say 57, the orange light immediately turns off and after about 20 seconds the Tivo reboots, but the Kickstart never runs never runs after that. I wait for the four lights to go out, hold the pause button on the remote and release the pause button when the single orange light appears. However, I simply can't get any of the Kickstart tests to run. Researching the problem I now know about the Kickstart process for testing the HDD and such. However, as of yesterday, it is now stuck in a "Welcome! Powering up." loop.

WD DRIVE UTILITIES STUCK AT 90 SERIES

I've have a Series 3 + Lifetime for a number of years with no custom upgrades and it's been working fine for me.