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What David_Levin said plus when you called advanced tech you should ask for a re-hit for the ext HDD. I've lost a HDD in the past before I knew about getting a hit for the DVR. Sometimes when an update happens the unit just needs to be hit(reminded that the ext HDD is OK).

There are instruction on here on how to recover the shows on the disk...

A. Create a bootable uBuntu disk
B. Copy the files over
C. Have the DVR reformat the drive
D. Copy the files back.

I've done it...it works....and yes Dish Tech Supp was no help with this but SatelliteGuys.US was!

This instruction below were take from the other string

How to transfer recordings from EHD to whatever


When you connect the external HD to Ubuntu, it will display two partitions.
§ The first one is a 1.0 GB partition and has one folder "Lost+Found". The second partition is where all your recordings are and the size depends on the size of your EHD.

§ The second partition has two folders, "Lost+Found" and "DishArc".

§ Your recordings are in the "DishArc" folder, under some folder name like "20b0dec0".

§ Each of these folders have 4 files, "bm", "cat", "tsp", and "wtt

Copying files from EHD to Desktop

Connect the EHD to Ubuntu and copy the folders from "DishArc" to a directory in Ubuntu.

Reformatting EHD

Connect the EHD to the 622 receiver and let it format and create the new partitions.


Copying files BACK to the EHD after formatting

Reconnect the EHD to Ubuntu
Open a Terminal session by going to Applications, Accessories, Terminal

§ Change to super user by typing "sudo -i"

§ Type "fdisk -l" to list your drives and note your USB drive (In my case, it was listed as "/dev/sdb1")

§ Type "mount /dev/sdb1" to mount the USB drive. It will tell you that it's already mounted but it will also show the USB EHD directory. (In my case it showed "/media/disk-1" and I'll need that for the next step)

§ Change to that directory by typing "cd /media/disk-1".

· You can do a listing to see if the two folders are there by typing "ls -l". You should see two directories, "DishArc" and "Lost+Found"

Change the permissions on DishArc Folder

· For the folder "DishArc" so your username will have write access to it. Type "chown randalla DishArc". (Of course, you'll use your username.) Leave Terminal open, we'll come back to change the permissions back to root.

· Go back to the Desktop and copy all your recordings from the Desktop to the "DishArc" folder in the EHD

Change the permissions BACK on the DishArc Folder

§ When you are finished copying the recordings, go back to terminal and type "chown root DishArc". This is to put the permission back to root.

If doing this from Bootable CD –

I just did this with the Ubuntu Live CD, I did it on my Windows computer and all I needed to do was boot from the Ubuntu CD. There's a minor change in the procedure when you boot from the Live CD since there are no users but the root user. You computer will also need to see both EHD drive at the same time since you're running from the CD not the Hard Drive and you won't be able to copy the directories to a CD.

Instead of using "chown randalla DishArc" you will need to use "chmod 777 DishArc" to have write access to the folder. Once you're finished moving the directories, change back the permission by typing "chmod 755 DishArc".

Here is the thread:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...-how-transfer-recordings-one-ehd-another.html

What I don't understand is WHY it does this...what is the root cause of this failure and why doesn't Dish Tech Supp support the recovery...as we did PAY for the service after all.
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Well, did not do this. I copied the files from my hard drive to my windows pc with Disk internals. It took forever and oh and forever and ever. Reformatted drive on 722 but disk internals can't copy back. So I will try what you guys stated and let you know. Doesn't directtv tivo let you copy to pc via network and they are not encrypted?
thanks to all