Accessing contents of the EHD

[PirateTodd]

My EHD keeps telling me I need to reformat in order to use it, even though it's worked for years. I'm afraid I'll lose all my recordings. Dish is trying to help me with it, but I keep getting the same reformat message.

Does anyone know if there is a way that I can atleast look up what i have stored on the drive so I know what shows I might be losing? I never backed it up on another computer, but I didn't know if I plugged it in to another source if it would show me the content stored on it. Atleast I will know what I had stored on there if I'm able to do that.

 

[KAB]

I'm afraid you are out of luck there. I wish you luck in resolving the issue. Is this the only EHD you are using. Have you asked Dish for a re-hit? Also, chances are your drive is corrupted and can't be recognized as an "in service" device.

 

[PirateTodd]

I'm afraid you are out of luck there. I wish you luck in resolving the issue. Is this the only EHD you are using. Have you asked Dish for a re-hit? Also, chances are your drive is corrupted and can't be recognized as an "in service" device.

That sucks....they tried a re-hit and it didn't work. I don't know how it would have been corrupted. I've had it hooked up to the Hopper for years now. This issue came out of nowhere.

 

[Partysox]

Don't give up yet if you can afford to just set it aside. Wait for your next update and then try it again....

 

[PirateTodd]

Don't give up yet if you can afford to just set it aside. Wait for your next update and then try it again....

That's my plan for now. I was hoping worst case scenario I could see what shows I had on there if in fact I can't get it to work anymore.

 

[gnm313]

It's an old thread, but my guess is that this methodology would still work to confirm if your drive is still readable and perhaps you can copy the data to a new drive:

"http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/how-to-transfer-recordings-from-one-ehd-to-another.128984/"