Dish External Hard drive successfully backed up!

[smooth28la]

I was able to make a backup/clone of my 2TB external hard drive to another 2TB using the hard drive duplicator. All shows seem to play fine.

I have not tried adding any new shows to it.

Has anyone also done it as well? Is there any technical problem with using the back up drive (since I'm using the original one for another purpose)?

 

[KAB]

Should not be any problems, but you will have to reformat the original drive in windows, since it is now formatted Linux, which involves a few steps. So the question begs to be asked, why did you go through the bother of it?

 

[sculchy]

Should not be any problems, but you will have to reformat the original drive in windows, since it is now formatted Linux, which involves a few steps. So the question begs to be asked, why did you go through the bother of it?

I'm guessing to have a backup copy of their external hard drive?

I guess I should work on my reading comprehension, somehow missed the last part of the original post.

 

[harshness]

I've done this several times using Clonezilla. Involving Windows is asking for trouble.

 

[KAB]

I'm guessing to have a backup copy of their external hard drive?

I guess I should work on my reading comprehension!

He said he was going to use it for another purpose. Which is why I'm puzzled.

 

[sculchy]

He said he was doing to use it for another purpose. Which is why I'm puzzled.

Yes, sorry I totally missed the last part of the original post. I'm also puzzled!

 

[Poke]

Yeah as long as it backed up should be fine you can use what you want but windows will work fine as well or you can use a 3rd party app.

 

[smooth28la]

The original drive was an WD-AV drive, which is more suitable for Tivo. I'm upgrading one of my Tivo's to a 2TB.

I can use cheaper drives for DISH's external hard drive purposes.

I didn't use Windows to clone. I used hardware-based method of Amazon product ASIN B003ZDLATE