I have a personal video recorder Branded "Thomson JL 8006". Had it for a couple of years, so I dont know how old it is.
Recently I tried to replay movies that are recorded on the drive & the replay breaks up then continues & breaks up again.

1. Does anyone have any experience telling if this is the drive failing or maybe some other failure in the unit.
2. Can I transfer the recorded data to ANOTHER outside drive. ( it does have a USB slot on it. )

Many thanks.

ImnoGuruYou said:
"Recently I tried to replay movies that are recorded on the drive & the replay breaks up then continues & breaks up again."

That might mean the head has dust or grime on it. Use a head cleaner.Thanks Geek-9pm for the reply. I hadnt thought of that. I'll give that a go.

I had thought that there might be a power supply failing or the drive it at the end of its LIFE ( but Ive had other drives last much much longer that are still working WELL today).
I guess the only way to find out is to open the case ( to clean the heads ) & inspect all pc/motherboard connections & components while Im in there.
Looking for burnt offerings swollen capacitors etc.
It can be a can of worms. Hey maybe just an accumulation of dust.
Cheers Geek-9pm.I think geek may have misunderstood you to be asking about a *VCR*, not a DVR.

There aren't going to be any heads to clean on a DVR, and you can't get head cleaners for a DVR. After all, the only "heads" would be inside the HDD.

It does sound like the HDD Inside has started to fail based on your symptoms.

If it supports it (I can't seem to find a manual for that SPECIFIC model), you ought to be able to plug in a FAT32 formatted USB Drive and there might be a facility somewhere in the menus of the DVR to copy to it. (If you still have the manual I'm sure that would help too)

Usually you can open up and swap the HDD in a DVR as well.