I have a somewhat peculiar problem with my 2+ year old XS35. Recently the XS35 has been failing to record timer recordings. I don’t have access to TVGuide data so I only use the manual timer recordings. This first started a week ago and I surmised that it would only fail to record if the HDD was in a sleep state. If the HDD was active then it would record the timer recordings. I did a clock/guide reset and that did not seem to help. I then unplugged the recorder for about ten minutes and that seemed to fix the problem – until today.

Today the timer recording started fine at 7:00 PM, but I stopped it 20 minutes later (by pressing stop twice on the front of the recorder). Another timer was set for 8:00 pm, but the recorder failed to start recording. I am not sure if stopping the first recording had anything to do with the next timer failing to record, but I have stopped timer recordings before without problems. At 8:00 I just hit the record button when it failed to record automatically. Another timer was set for 9:00, but that did not seem to work either. This seems very strange.

I have not been able to find any firmware updates for this recorder. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You don't have over 66 pages of recordings, do you? I ran into that limit...

You don't have over 66 pages of recordings, do you? I ran into that limit...

Whoa! I have about 13 pages of recordings (73 titles) and I believe I have a about 20 timers set.

I have a somewhat peculiar problem with my 2+ year old XS35. Recently the XS35 has been failing to record timer recordings. I don’t have access to TVGuide data so I only use the manual timer recordings. This first started a week ago and I surmised that it would only fail to record if the HDD was in a sleep state. If the HDD was active then it would record the timer recordings. I did a clock/guide reset and that did not seem to help. I then unplugged the recorder for about ten minutes and that seemed to fix the problem – until today.

Unplugging has always worked for me. Strange.
Try a safe reset. It has also always worked for me. With your XS35 on and idle, press and hold power button until it turns off and then on again, then release. Doesn't hurt anything. By the way, that is also how you swap out the HDD. See this thread for more info on that.

Toshiba XS32, XS54, XS35, (all XS models) - HDD swap info!!! (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10405753#post10405753)

I wonder if simply turning OFF the recorder then back on would have solved it too. (I'm now wary of the 'hold down power button' trick since it was involved in hosing my original XS32 hard drive's contents after it hung -- in retrospect I put part of the blame on me..)

Ironically, I had to force power off for the first time in a long time last night.. I was dubbing some of my earliest recordings (from 2006) to DVD-RW.. and part of the reason they are the earliest recordings I have are that some of them hang the recorder. I'll have to do the real time dub to reencode them. (If I had an otherwise empty hard drive, I'm curious if trying to do a fast dub of one of these to the hard drive would hang and cause corruption.. I actually suspect NOT, because it seems like it hangs before it ever writes ANYTHING to the destination.)