721 disk failure/replacement

[drufus2002]

My dvr 721 just had a disk failure. I have removed the disk and tried to access it on my windows machine - no cigar. I moved it to my linux machine and I can read it just fine.

Given that its a Maxtor drive I am kinda surprised it has lasted as long as it has (5 years!). I have read a thread that says that I must clone the first partition. They did it with ghost (norton). This is a windows program. So now I have a little problem in that windows will not recognize the drive.

If anybody had ANY thoughts on this (be kind!) I would truly appreciate them.

I am reasonably familiar with computers, replacing drives, etc. but am really not up to snuff on Linux even though I do have a linux (mandriva) machine.

Thank you...............

 

[Jim5506]

Try the Yahoo group dishmod. They have instructions for replacing drives in older (and newer) Dish DVR's.

 

[Smith P.]

He can do it easy - run Ghost from MS-DOS bootable floppy/CD.

 

[drufus2002]

Thanks

Thanks for the reply!

 

[drufus2002]

Thanks for the reply

He can do it easy - run Ghost from MS-DOS bootable floppy/CD.

Ghost - Norton Ghost?

Won't really make any difference because my windows machine will not recognize the drive (although my Linux machine reads it just fine)

Again - thanks for the reply!

 

[Smith P.]

Forget about Windows - do it !

It was Norton, now it's Symantec.

 

[drufus2002]

Confused

I am, obviously, confused. If my windows (w2000) machine will not recognize the drive how in the world can I do ANYTHING with it?

I hooked it up, incidentally, to a USB port.

Just curious.............

 

[Smith P.]

See post#3.

 

[drufus2002]

Thanks.........

NOW the I get it! (I think). I will have to hook the drive to ide connector cable and then boot up in DOS and it should be fine. I will make a run at that tomorrow. Now I have to find a program to grable the first partition. I have issues with symantic but there seems to be a lot of them out there - just have to look around.

Thanks again for the reply and I apologize for not paying attention!

 

[Smith P.]

Just connect your old disk as a master, new (clean) - as a slave and copy from first disk to second a partition by parttition.

 

[Pepper]

Windows can't read it because it is LINUX partitions.

Ghost doesn't care, build Ghost boot floppy as Smith suggests, then Ghost will recognize it.

 

[boomerang]

Are there issues with drive size? Does the replacement drive has to be the same size or will any additional space just be ignored?

There are a lot of different scenarios possible; hopefully I've gotten my point across.

 

[Smith P.]

All the questions has been asked and answered at other place long time ago.
This site push such discussion to elsewhere.