My Hopper 3 died late last week. It would not get past the startup and system test screen. Also there was a continuous clicking sound. To me it sounded like the hard drive had died.
So I bought a new Hopper 3 and it arrived today. Installation went fairly well. In the mean time I pulled the hard drive out of the old Hopper, which I owned. Tonight I put the old drive into a ESATA
dock and plugged it into the USB port on the front of the new hopper. My intent was to try to recover the 30+ recordings I had on the old drive.
The new Hopper came up with the dialogue box stating that I had plugged in an external storage device that needed to be formatted for use. Well this would negate my attempt to recover the recordings.
Is there a way, short of opening my new Hopper and swapping drives to transfer/copy the recordings from the old drive? On the DVR screen the old drive does not show up.
So I bought a new Hopper 3 and it arrived today. Installation went fairly well. In the mean time I pulled the hard drive out of the old Hopper, which I owned. Tonight I put the old drive into a ESATA
dock and plugged it into the USB port on the front of the new hopper. My intent was to try to recover the 30+ recordings I had on the old drive.
The new Hopper came up with the dialogue box stating that I had plugged in an external storage device that needed to be formatted for use. Well this would negate my attempt to recover the recordings.
Is there a way, short of opening my new Hopper and swapping drives to transfer/copy the recordings from the old drive? On the DVR screen the old drive does not show up.
