RCA DVR2160-DVR2080 HD Replace?

My fan quit in my DVR 2160 and I think it got too hot and crapped out the HD too. I replaced the fan (so the error lights went away). The HD makes no sound so I'm pretty sure it's dead. I put a 200G Maxtor in with it set to Master (just like the 160 was) and it spins up but doesn't seem to have ever initialized because the 2160 won't come online with the TV.

Does anybody know the initialization proess? There's a jumper on the firewire board. There's also a recessed button on the back of the unit that I suspect is used for lockups. I have tried holding in the button while applying power, pressing it and pressing it and holding it while running to no avail. I haven't played with the jumper as of yet.

I know it's probably not probably economically smart to replace the drive since these things can be bought so cheaply but I thought I'd try since I had a 200 laying around that I wasn't using anyway.

Has anybody had any luck replacing the drive in one of these guys?

Thanks in advance.

-bob

Thank you SO much TC. You have PM.

Well folks... I got what appears to be a solution. It appears to be a series of .rar's that create a .zip that must be an image of the 160 drive. When I try to unzip the file created by the .rar's, it just goes on forever so I assume that it would blow up to ~160G if I'd let it.

The very limited readme that cam with it refers to a site that implies it can be used to image a replacement drive apparently with something called GZip and DD.exe.

I found dd.exe for Windows but to say documentation as to its usage is sparce would be like saying the Empire State Building is tall.

Anybody care to take a wack at guessing the command line parameters to take this .zip file and pipe it through gzip to output it to a master or a slave drive on the secondary or a slave on the primary IDE channel?

I'm scared to play with it because I can't find crap for doc on DD's usage but it's bound to be destructive if used incorrectly because of what it does by design.

ANY help or guidance would be GREATLY appreciated. My local college (Barton) plays for the Div II National Championship in HD today and I would love to be able to record it.

Thanks.

-bob