Is it possible to connect External Drive from VIP722k to Hopper without loss of recorded programs?

[joe1940]

Can anyone help? I've received 3 different answers from Dish. No one seems to really know.

 

[Jim5506]

Can you take YES for an answer? If it is not recognised, have dish send a hit to the receiver (maybe multiple times). The format and programming on the VIP722 are the same as on the Hopper, it should be simple as plug and play.

 

[Bobby]

To further that I am using the same EHD that i used on my 722K, Hopper1, and Hopper 3. All of the programs on it came from all three receivers. Yes, indeed!

 

[MikeD-C05]

I didn't think you could use the same external hard drive on all three receivers. I know if you try to use an external hard drive from say the Hopper on the Wally it will reformat the drive, before you can use it.

 

[Bobby]

I didn't think you could use the same external hard drive on all three receivers. I know if you try to use an external hard drive from say the Hopper on the Wally it will reformat the drive, before you can use it.

As long as you are not trying to go between a Wally or 211 to the other DVRs or reverse you are fine.

 

[Bobby]

As long as you are not trying to go between a Wally or 211 to the other DVRs or reverse you are fine.

And then to prove my statement I went into my EHD and found recordings from early 2011, long before the Hopper existed.

 

[Foxbat]

I moved my EHD from 622 to 722 to Hopper 3. I have a copy of “Ronin” from mid-2000s, and the Boeing 787 launch rollout in July 2007.

 

[navychop]

Same here. The answer is absolutely YES. BUT- you might give it a day or two for everything to settle.

 

[Miner]

Same here, I have recordings from my 622. There was the time (a few years ago) when I would plug the drive in and it would take several hours before the window that said I had an external drive attached came up. I believe the hopper was running a disk check in the background, but for some reason it took a long time.
I basically plugged them in and just let them eventually be recognized.

 

[TheKrell]

Same here. I have EHDs on my H3 which came from both a 722 and a 612, each of which were great receivers IMHO. The sole beef I had with my 722 was I couldn't get anamorphic widescreen from the TV2 outputs.

 

[joe1940]

Thanks to all for answering my question. We're planning to upgrade to Hopper, but worried the system will force a format and we'd lose about 1/2 TB of favorites

 

[Foxbat]

Don’t worry about it, joe1940. You should be fine.

If you are really really worried, there is a way to format a new EHD on the Hopper and use Linux to make a copy of the Events off of the old EHD to the new.