VIP211K with external hard drive -must format message

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Today when I turned on my receiver. There was a message saying that in order to use the DVR feature that I have to reformat my hard drive. Did they update the software?

I've been using this hard drive for a while and I several shows I still needed to watch. : /
 
I installed a different drive and it worked but I don't want to lose whats on my other drive.
 
Not sure what exactly fixed it. Dish send something to my receiver and I rebooted it.
 
DirecTV has a "re-send authorization signal to my receiver" option on their website. Something DISH should add to theirs.
 
It might be the 211k itself, but it's hard to say without opening it up. I was having all sorts of issues with my older 211 receiver that I was able to trace to a puffed electrolytic capacitor by the SmartCard socket. I replaced that and returned the 211 to life. But it's probably the EHD itself, or

There are threads on this site on how to backup the contents of the 411/211/211k/211z/Wally EHD to a new EHD using your favorite Linux distro to access the EHD's file system. Another option is to pull apart your EHD and run SpinRite against the SATA drive in a desktop PC which can recondition the HD and repair any bad sectors. It all depends on your comfort level...
 
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I would guess that you have a defect in either the hard drive or the usb cable. I haven't heard of anyone else having this issue with a 211K.

Must be. I rebooted it again and its working. Going to replace after I watch my recordings I haven't watched.
 
It might be the 211k itself, but it's hard to say without opening it up. I was having all sorts of issues with my older 211 receiver that I was able to trace to a puffed electrolytic capacitor by the SmartCard socket. I replaced that and returned the 211 to life. But it's probably the EHD itself, or

There are threads on this site on how to backup the contents of the 411/211/211k/211z/Wally EHD to a new EHD using your favorite Linux distro to access the EHD's file system. Another option is to pull apart your EHD and run SpinRite against the SATA drive in a desktop PC which can recondition the HD and repair any bad sectors. It all depends on your comfort level...
Thanks I was wondering if I could save the recordings.
 
Today I took the hard drive out of the enclosure (WD My Book) and put it in a new HD enclosure. Maybe with a new USB cable and electronics it might help. Fingers crossed. :)
 
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Today I took the hard drive out of the enclosure (WD My Book) and put it in a new HD enclosure. Maybe with a new USB cable and electronics it might help. Fingers crossed. :)
Hoping for the best! You should know soon enough.
 
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