Hard drive upgrade for echostar 508

Telman

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I presently have a 508 that has a defective Hard drive that I want to replace with a 120gig maxtor. the problem is the 508 doesn't have an automatic rountine to format the hard drive so it can be used. I looked at old Hard drive in a pc and it shows it in bios but not in dos or windows. Question is how do you prepare a hard drive for use in the 508.
 
The 501/508/510 receivers have to have specific hard drives. You cannot just use any drive in them. The Dishrip and Dishmod forums on Yahoo, as mentioned have all the info you need to replace the drive and the specific model of drives that you need. You can use a 120GB drive in your 508 and get the 100 hours without having to pay the DVR fee of the 510.
 
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