Tomtom 720- Is hard drive dead??

futuresbright · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject: Tomtom 720- Is hard drive dead??

My TT GO 720 has just died on me

When i turn it on all i get is a picture of the device, a hard drive in the bottom right hand corner and a big flashing white cross in a red circle.

It will allow me to connect to computer and format drive and then copy my backup files to it but it just will not boot.

I can however go down the SD card route and with all files on it it does boot and everything is OK.

Is the hard drive dead? anyone suggest anything to get it to boot?

mikealder · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject:

Its not hard drive as such, the device contains solid state memory chips that retain (or rather should retain) the files, if its not responding to a format then its probably died.
To keep the device in use employ an SD or SDHC card as the device can support memory cards up to and including 32GB in capacity, with memory cards at very low prices these days its cheaper to fit one of these and carry on using the device rather than scraping the 720 which is still the best hardware produced from TomTom in a long time in my opinion - Mike

futuresbright · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:

Trevor1234 · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject:

Hi futuresbright
If you have formatted and tried unsuccessfully to restore a valid Backup to your 720 there is very little left that you can do.

You have stated that you can run the device from your card and I think that’s the best thing that you are going to manage. Mike Alder appears to think the same and he’s usually spot on. I have a 720 and Tomtom haven’t come out with a better model yet. Lets hope that you get many more years out of your device/card.
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futuresbright · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:30 am Post subject:

The internal memory on my 720 died about a year ago, and I've been running happily with everything on an SD card ever since.

The only minor hassle is that TT Home will not recognise the device at all if I plug it in with a USB cable, so I have to pop the card out and put it in a card reader plugged into a USB socket on the PC. Home then finds it and runs fine.

Strangely, Windows finds the SD card OK when it's still in the Go.

deep_south · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 26, 2004 Posts: 22

Might be worth doing a "full format", not the "quick one" using Windows Explorer - I had a similar problem a couple of months ago on my TT, and a full format & restore did the trick for me.

I tried to do a new backup first and that failed, which led to beleive the flash memory was dodgy. I was pleased this worked, as it was about a month out of warranty....

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:04 pm Post subject:

futuresbright · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject:

tried everything including full formats,quick formats, formatting to FAT and FAT32.

files will write to device but it will not boot.

not too bothered now been running for the last couple of days on SD card with no difference whatsoever.

Sorry Tomtom no more pennies off me for a while yet!!! Very Happy

Robbo66 · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject:

Robbo66 · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:46 pm Post subject:

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