Hard Drive Upgrade

[Avro_Arrow]

Hi All

I have been trying to upgrage my PVR with a non-
supported hard drive. The old one was a 4L120L0
and the new one is a 6L200P0. I think I know about
half of what I need to know to make it work.
Here is my progress so far. I edited my E552 by
changing the entry for 6K040L0 to 6L200P0.
I wrote FF to the new drive to help me track the changes the PVR made to it.
I copied the marrage licences from the old hard drive to the new one using winhex.
I booted the system up and it came up saying " A serious
hard drive error has occured and your hard drive needs to be formated. you will loose all recorded programing."
After agreeing, I could here the hard drive spin up but
after that the system just seemed frozen. If I re-booted the system it would give 0457 hard drive not found until
I removed power.
Next I cloned the old hard drive to the new one.
Now I get error 04e4.
The new hard drive passes dst-2.

Anyone had success with this and can lend some advise?
Thanks

[Crazy1_79]

i do not know What model of receiver you have, by the firware revision i can assume it is bev, a 5100 or something i think. Anyway, you can try loading virgin firmware on the receiver, and ffing out the harddrive and let it marry itself. See what that does for you.

[Avro_Arrow]

Thank you for your reply

Yes, I had considered that too. It is probably what I will try next.
I was just hoping not to have to go throught that step too.
I should have been able to format the drive with "play-play-recall" but
it didn't work either

And yes, the ird is a 5900.

[Crazy1_79]

since you are not replacing it with a original HD i am not sure what else you can try.