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]

Linux.

 

[Jim5506]

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.

IIRC the OS on the Hopper is a version of Linux , so you might be able to connect both the drive in the new Hopper and the drive from the old hopper to a Linux PC and if you can find the files on the old drive copy them to the appropriate folder on the new drive.
The method you tried will not work because I think the file folders on the internal drive are not mirrors of the file folders on the EHD AND like you see the Hopper is designed to format any usable EHD to the folder arrangement of and EHD, not an internal one.
Also, I believe the Hopper encrypts the files it moves to an EHD and files on the internal drive are not encrypted.

PS - do not physically remove the drive from either receiver, just unplug them and use the appropriate connections to introduce them to the Linux PC - there are tamper (or at least historically there have been) tapes on the internal drives that tell Dish you have removed the drive from the receiver.

With the clicking, probably the drive is dead and programs cannot be retrieved.