Lg DVD HDD recorder

[Liteace]

Hi All, I have here a Lg RH266 DVD HDD recorder, its just packed up, when you switch it on the "hello" message hello message keeps scrolling across the display and you can hear the h\drive trying to spin up every 5 mins, Ive tried a good HD in it and it does the same. Looks like its a bin job, anyone got any recommendations for a replacement, Ive read a few reviews on the newer LG's and there not good

Thanks

[cactikid]

found elsewhere.
I had same problem, randomly pressed every key on remote after 15 minutes of just prossing butons, it "rebooted" and picture came back. unfortunately about a week later, the whole thing died.

[nibblitz]

LG are not a good brand... Goldstar products never were...

Panasonic is a quality brand in AV equipment..

[DOUGALMCD]

Why is this thread in Home and garden section?

[Liteace]

Why is this thread in Home and garden section?

Well because I used it in the home and when it stopped working I threw it in the garden

[Shady]

Well because I used it in the home and when it stopped working I threw it in the garden

brilliant

[daithi]

Well because I used it in the home and when it stopped working I threw it in the garden

classic

[cactikid]

none of the above,ya litter lout,recycle we want your crap .

[Bulld0g]

Well because I used it in the home and when it stopped working I threw it in the garden

moved into correct forum

[Liteace]

moved into correct forum

I didnt know we had a Home Entertainment & HD Media section

[R_J]

I had a simular issue with a Philips DVDR3455, it would seem the firmware or part of it is on the hard drive, If it cant read the drive it does'nt know what to do.
I had another working unit (same model) and cloned the drive in a pc. when I installed the hard drive back into the dvd unit it worked just fine. The drive had been corrupted somehow and caused the unit not to work, the drive was still fine.

Resetting the recorder

If you observe any of the following symptoms...

The unit is plugged in, but the power will not turn
on or off.

The front panel display is not working.

The recorder is not operating normally.

...you can reset the recorder as follows:

Press and hold the POWER button for at least five
seconds. This will force the unit to power off then
turn the unit back on.

Unplug the power cord, wait at least five seconds,

and then plug it in again.

[Liteace]

I've done all the resetting a hundred times but still the same, I'll try and clone the hard drive with pc but I think I'm going to need some software to do this as windows will only see it in disk management as a disk that is offline that needs formatting

[R_J]

Whe I said I cloned the drive I used a dos based tool and cloned the drive from a working dvd recorder (same make and model) not the pc's drive. hope this clears that up.

[Liteace]

I have access to another the same that is working, I also have several hard drives here, what software would I need to clone the working hard drive ?

Thanks

[lagerland]

Sorry mate i tried to put it in the post but i think the file size is to big....................