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Odd Hard Drive Problem
I'm trying to fix a 9 year old Sony SVR-HDT500 video recorder which contains a 500 GB hard drive optmised for video recording.
The fault symptoms are slow loading of menus and jittery playback. I removed the hard drive and checked it connected to a PC. There are no obvious errors but the transfer rate is very slow which would explain the fault symptoms. I'm assuming the disk is beyond repair unless someone has a bright idea.
I would normally install a new drive but Sony have cunningly linked the serial number of the hard drive to the serial number of the mainboard requiring bespoke Sony software I don't have to register the drive before it can be used!