| DVR recovery blues ... |
 DVR recovery blues ...
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Dec. 2nd, 2008 @ 08:56 pm 
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A power glitch killed my Dish DVR 625 last Sunday, but the HDD is still OK. Dish will replace my box, but they say that I have to lose all of my recorded programs. I want to preserve my recordings by either (in order of preference):
(1) Put my old HDD into the new receiver box. Has anyone tried this? Will it work?
(2) Copy the files from the old HDD to PC, then copy them back to the HDD in my new receiver. Has anyone tried this?
(3) Rip the shows from the old HDD to PC, then burn them directly to DVD.
It appears that PvrExplorerPro203.exe is designed to do option #3.
I connected the HDD in my 625 to the Parallel-ATA and power cables of a PC running Windows-2000-SP4. Windows explorer sees the WD hard drive, but says it's not formatted. (I think that the DVR uses a Linux filesystem.)
I ran PvrExplorerPro203.exe and it instantly sees my recorded programs on the attached 625 HDD. But when I click on the "Extract Programs" button, PvrExplorerPro203 instantly crashes. What am I doing wrong? Do I need some special DLL or driver, or what?
Your suggestions are welcome, since I can't seem to find the manual for PvrExplorer. |
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| From: | ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) russj |
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December 5th, 2008 07:28 pm (UTC) |
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I received the new Dish DVR 625 receiver yesterday evening, and it has a larger HDD. The DVR menu displays 150 hours free, instead of the old receiver's 100 hours maximum. BONUS!
It now looks like option #1 is less attractive, and I'm leaning towards options #2 or #3. And Echostar wants the old receiver sent back in just a few days, so I don't have much time.
I had no luck using dumpdp, dishrip, or xfsview, except to observe that the old DVR HDD has three partitions:
2006 MB
145661 MB
102388 MB
UPDATE:
The old receiver now will power-up, but I get an error message when I attempt to access the stored programs. Perhaps the HDD _is_ some damaged--or at least it's filesystem. Either that, or the receiver's HDD interface is broken.
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| From: | russj |
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December 19th, 2008 04:27 pm (UTC) |
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