thanks for the reply, but do you have your unit in a cabinet or somewhere pretty far from where you'd watch? mine's just in my room, on top of my tv. it sounds more like a computer reading a CD (that kind of fast spinning almost fan noise), than a regular dvd player. I love the thing (HDD), and if I take it back, I can't get another one because I bought the last one. What to do...........
Contact Liteon... They're one one's who actually made the thing. Or contact Radioshack, but that probably won't be much help. If you want, try to find a Liteon DVD burner online and swap it out. It's a standard 5 1/4 inch drive. I tried to put an unformatted 120GB drive, but it came up the error 0x810D0004 -- Please contact customer service. Damn... no auto-formatting option. HOWEVER... I did at least find out that it's running basic FAT32 partitioning and is labeled LITEONFAT (or something similiar to that...) I'll try a formatted 120GB once I get around to booting up my linux machine, since WinXP does not support formatting FAT drives in that large of a size.
eVipere, there is a program you can download online to format the drive in fat32 that people use to format drives for hd recorders. The program is called "h2format.exe". Do a search and you can find where to download it. Let me know if it works out. I'm buying a 160GB drive and hope to be able to use it on my Accurian.
I forgot to mention. The program h2format works in Win Xp. Also, don't forget to name the drive "LITEONFAT" or whatever name was on the original drive. I don't know if it's true or not but I've read that not to format the new drive in the machine as it will then revert to the original 80GB's. The following is instructions for h2format I found online: "Under XP it's not possible to format a drive larger than 32GB with FAT32. But for photo storage devices ('image tanks') FAT32 is essential - they doesn't work with NTFS formatted drives. The german computer magazine c't offers a format tool - H2Format. But it works on unformatted partitions only. To prepare a drive, go to the Disk Management, delete the partition, create a new one and select 'Do not format'. The use H2Format to write an FAT32 file system - usage is similar to the FORMAT.EXE. Sample: h2format u: It's very fast because it does nothing else then writing an empty FAT32 file system."
bottlerkt,-- My unit is in an entertainment center (open front) and I am about 8 feet from it. I checked today and I have to get within about 18 inches from it before I can hear any noise while playing a disk, and at that distance it is a very low noise. I don't know how many RS dealers are in your area, but there are about six in my area, and all of them show units in stock on the internet (I realize this is not 100% reliable), so you might be able to return it and get one from another dealer.
I to own a Accurian adr-3223 and upgraded to a 160GB GD. I used the fat 32 program to format the new drive. I copied the file structure exactly and it worked. The 80 has a small unused portions space. I suppose it has to do with recording time. The only problem that I had was when we had a power failure. When I turned it on again it said it was not turned off properly. It does what I think is a quick chkdsk. After it did this all the programs that I had saved were cut down to 30 min. All the info was correct, like 1:30 min for program 1 or 2:00 for program 2 but it only had 30 min. of program content saved. This happened a couple of times. I have since bought an APC UPS 350va for less than $30.00 and plugged in all my hd recorders in. Now I just make sure they are all turned off with the power button and have not had any problems. It did double the record time. I used a seegate that I happened to have. All seems to be ok (6months since conversion) as long as I turn it off correctly Good Luck
n4jrf--Thanks for the info. So far 80GB has been enough for my needs, but anticipate needing more in the future.
n4jrf, I have a few questions. When you lost power and the programs were reduced in half was the drive reduced back to 80GB's? If so, when you put the drive back in the computer to reformat, what did the computer show as the size of the drive? Also, did you try the drive in the recorder after formating without putting the basic folders on the drive. Thanks.
Can anyone tell me does this recorder allow you to timeslip? (I think thats what its called, start recording a show, and 15 min later, start watching it while its still recording the end of the show?)
charlie6 all i did was delete the remaining programs and it worked fine. It all ways said 160gb I never had to remove it or reformat it. I never used the defrag program that the accurian has though it may only see it as a 80gb? I'm not sure but i don't want to try jimmy
I picked up on of these when Radio Shack had them for $250 after rebate and although I love it and hug it daily, I have gone through three units due to problems when editing saved shows. Occasionally when editing the unit will stop and the show will not be able to be moved, edited or played. Other than that it's pretty flawless (save for every once in a while a recorded show has a high pitched whine) and I have not seen a unit that's comparable to what it does for the same price. Sure it'd be great it it was perfect but I love that I have found out thanks to this thread how to enlarge the hard drive if I want. Just wish I could get rid of macro too but that's no large deal. Question: does anyone edit the shows they save on a computer? I'm looking for a program where I can cut out commercials (cut and splice back together) without the program re-encoding it and losing quality.
v1nce--Mine has locked up a couple of times when I tried to input info too fast. Just unplugged unit for a few seconds and plugged it in and lost no info. Hasn't happened since I haven't crowded it inputting info.
I just bought this recorder last night for $199. The unit shows it as a clearance so I don't know if they are no longer making tnis model but I've been really impressed with the reviews on it plus the great price.
just wondering what kind of drive you can use to do this upgrade? does it have to be ATA or can it be PATA don't think SATA will work. How big can we go? just wondering. Also, the H2Format utility didn't work for me and came back with german errors. All this after I deleted and created a new partition in XP Disk manager. I went out and found/used swissknife.exe from 2cows which worked very well and was really easy. thanks for any answers you can provide --soob
Thanks NMILT, if it wasn't for that lock problem it'd be perfect! I do so love mine. soob: you need a regular IDE (PATA not SATA) drive. n4jrf: question - have you ever told the machine to format the larger drive and if so did the drive stay at 160meg or 80?
I've had the ADR-3223 for about 6 months and have been happy overall. It does what I need it to do and price was good. 2 questions I haven't seen anywhere else though. 1) If unit is basically same as LiteOn 5045, I would be interested in upgrading firmware, but the firmware in it now is 0202, which is not listed on the sites. So where would I find that file if I wanted or needed to go back to 0202? Don't want to try it without that option. 2) I've found occasional problems with anything recorded to hard drive over 30 minutes, that at some point you play back and can only get to around 45 minute mark, no way to play to end. Anyone else see this on Accurian or LiteOn? Could it be fixed in earlier/later firmware? Thanks a lot.
mska....I can't help on your first question, but on the second I have not had this problem. Consistently record two to four hours and have always been able to watch total recording.
mska: I have not had that problem either but have you called the 1-800 tech support number on the back of the manual? Also, have you reformatted the drive and still had the same issue?
Thanks, I have not called support, will check with them. I have not formatted the HD, though defraged a lot. I can put in another drive and format to compare, that way I won't lose all recordings. Thanks, Mark
