Sony Hdd upgrade advice.

[STOWITBELOW]

I've a sony RDR freeview DVD recorder which has a 160gb hdd. I believe I could swap the drive but need the - J-6090-203-A service remote. Can anyone tell me are this remotes functions available to download for my Harmony, or must I get this remote. Does anyone have this remote I could 'rent' ?

 

[ramjet]

read the sticky post on hard drives above , and I posted links to the relevant threads you need on upgrading the x70 and x90 models

I use a harmony myself . the 628 , using the pioneer file I downloaded into it as per the thread instructions

 

[STOWITBELOW]

I'd been a bit lazy TBH, having glanced an the aforementioned thread, realised mine could be done, didn't go through it nor all the links. (Still haven't its rather long & convalute) Never-the-less I shall do so now I know I can get the code for my Harmony, when I've got a HDD & can do the job. I'm sacking Sky, so need to re-jig the remote soon & anticipate the Sony'll get more use then. So 160 gb isn't going to be enough. Thanks again.

 

[William YZF-R1]

As above really its all in that thread and one or two relevant links contained within it.

I only became interested in upgrading my 160Gb HDD after also getting rid of Sky+HD.

If you have a suitable x70 Recorder read the PDF file link - post 6 (link below), for full details of fitting and using the Harmony/Pioneer remote.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/dvd-.../675639-succesful-upgrade-hdd-rdr-hxd970.html

and the Logitech Harmony file for the Pioneer Service remote is mentioned here (Post 14):

http://www.avforums.com/forums/dvd-...0-upgrade-hdd-must-i-change-model-number.html

I have no desire to detract from the effort of the original posters but it took me longer to read,find & digest the relevant info, than actually upgrade the HDD.

Took me about 20 minutes, working slowly and carefully but my 870 has been fine since with a 7200rpm SATA 500Gb HDD (1Tb is max upgrade possible).

Hope it works out for you and its a painless and problem free upgrade as mine was.

 

[STOWITBELOW]

Super, as I said, I only glanced at the thread & after ramjet's advice I looked a bit closer. TBH I wasn't looking forward trawling through it, reading it all to find all the relavent bits. When I get a drive hopefully I now don't need to!