Hopper 3 hard drive

[NR2D]

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.

 

[HipKat]

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.

If the drive is shot, no but you can try to put it back and connect an EHD and see if you can transfer them to that drive, then connect it to the new Hopper

 

[navychop]

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