Lost ALL dvr recordings

[Bobby]

You are right, but that is what I meant.

I just wanted to clarify which is which.

 

[tornado]

I just wanted to clarify which is which.

That is correct. I know first hand.

 

[Bobby]

That is correct. I know first hand.

Let me be clearer. You originally stated that a reset in Diagnostics would cause you to lose all of your DVR recordings. There are 2 resets in Diagnostics. Only Reset to Factory Defaults will cause that. A simple reset will not. When you make a broad statement you can confuse some users. You need to be specific.

 

[dishstaller]

When you make a broad statement you can confuse some users.

Story of my life man......story of my life.

 

[tornado]

That is correct. I know first hand.

I wasn't talking about myself being correct because I was wrong.

What I posted was very confusing for leaving out the part that the reset I was talking about was reset to FACTORY settings.

There is a difference.

The reset to FACTORY settings is distinctly different than the regular ordinary reset receiver.

I wasn't careful with what I said.

I was saying you, Bobby are correct that only resetting to FACTORY settings causes the Loss of ALL dvr recordings not regular ordinary resetting of the receiver.

Losing all of you DVR recordings only happens by resetting to FACTORY settings and not ordinary just resetting the receiver.

I was talking about resetting to FACTORY settings but I left out the FACTORY part.

My first hand knowledge is, I Lost ALL of my dvr recordings through the resetting to FACTORY settings feature.

Last Spring when I called Dish for technical support, one of Dish's less than careful offshore technical support agent connected remotely to my Hopper 3.

The less than careful Dish tech agent reset my Hopper 3 to FACTORY settings causing me to lose all of my DVR recordings.

The support agent voice sounded way too young to be doing what she was doing.

She raced through the settings on one of my Hopper 3s that was 100% full of DVR recordings and reset it to factory settings.

I asked her why she did that and she denied it.

Be careful.

Once you reset the Hopper 3 to FACTORY settings all of your DVR recordings are lost.

There is nothing that you can do to get the DVR recordings back.

Some of my recordings had some meaning to me.

My Hopper 3 was 100% full.

Don't lose all of their DVR recordings.

 

[rvvaquero]

I wasn't talking about myself being correct because I was wrong.

I left out the important distinction that it is reset to the factory settings.

I was saying you are correct.

Losing all of you DVR recordings only happens by resetting to factory settings and not any other way.

In my original post I was talking about reseting to factory settings but I left out the factory part.

I didn't know that there is a regular reset because I have never used that.

I don't want anybody to reset to factory setting and lose all of their DVR recordings.

I was wrong to leave out the to factory settings part.

Thanks for telling me.

My first hand knowledge is in losing all of my DVR recordings by resetting to factory settings.

When I didn't know about the reset to factory settings option in the diagnostic menu Dish's less careful offshore technical support agent connected remotely and reset my Hopper 3 to factory settings causing me to lose all of my DVR recordings.

The support agent said she was twenty years old but sounded younger.

She raced through the settings on my Hopper 3.

This is one way to learn not to do that.

Unfortunately she reset the Hopper 3 to factory settings and there is nothing you can do.

I record so much that there is no way I will ever be able to watch all of my recordings.

Some of my recordings had some meaning to me.

My Hopper 3 was 100% full.

My first hand knowledge is in losing all of my DVR recordings.

Don't worry, there are people worse than me.

Thank you for helping me.

I don't want others to lose all of their DVR recordings.

Please accept my apology.

Just to be sure, are you talking about resetting to factory settings?

 

[tornado]

Just to be sure, are you talking about resetting to factory settings?

Resetting to factory setting was what I was talking about because if you reset to factory settings ALL dvr recordings will be Lost, and that happened to me

 

[MikeD-C05]

Just to be sure, are you talking about resetting to factory settings?

Stop it, your killing me.

 

[tsunami2311]

had similar issue though DVR on h3 was going, turn out it really was my external HDD i plugin to move stuff from time to time. which would make sense when I power on external HDD i heard noise I only hear when HDD is going bad

I basicly lost 30 episodes of Red Dwarf in transfer, then found out the external drive was stuck "spin" up mode accord to h3 error, I rebooted the h3 and power down external drive, and 30 red dwarfs listed there list as 1 in folder, so i deleted all of red dward and what was not transferred still on h3.

I need to move all the stuff off that drive, sadly i dont have anymore drives to use laying around, will be rather upset if I lose Godzilla movie collection i have on there, as i am 3 movies short of everything before shin godzilla

 

[tornado]

I found a button on my laptop right under Eject that says Erase Disk.

Choosing Erase Disk by mistake would be a good way to lose all the data.

Ha Ha

 

[syphix]

WOW...that's impressive. In that case, since there are under 9,000 hrs in a year, they should last a lifetime.

MTBF is not an estimate of how long a single hard drive will run continuously before dying. Instead, it is a population-wide probability calculation.

To calculate a 1,000,000-hour MTBF, a manufacturer might run a test fleet of 1,000 drives for 1,000 hours (roughly 42 days). If 1 drive fails during that window across the combined total of 1,000,000 operating hours, the drive model gets a "1,000,000-hour MTBF" rating.

An MTBF of 1,000,000 hours means that if you run 1,000 identical drives 24/7, you can statistically expect roughly 1 drive to fail every 1,000 hours across the whole array.

 

[dishstaller]

MTBF is not an estimate of how long a single hard drive will run continuously before dying. Instead, it is a population-wide probability calculation.

To calculate a 1,000,000-hour MTBF, a manufacturer might run a test fleet of 1,000 drives for 1,000 hours (roughly 42 days). If 1 drive fails during that window across the combined total of 1,000,000 operating hours, the drive model gets a "1,000,000-hour MTBF" rating.

An MTBF of 1,000,000 hours means that if you run 1,000 identical drives 24/7, you can statistically expect roughly 1 drive to fail every 1,000 hours across the whole array.

It was my understanding that there would be NO math in this thread

 

[RTCDude]

It was my understanding that there would be NO math in this thread

There is a 1 in 100 statistical probability that math will appear in any thread with numbers in it. The probability Increases with recurrent appearance of numerals by a yet to be calculated percentage factor.

/s

 

[navychop]

NAZI!!!

 

[Almighty1]

MTBF is not an estimate of how long a single hard drive will run continuously before dying. Instead, it is a population-wide probability calculation.

To calculate a 1,000,000-hour MTBF, a manufacturer might run a test fleet of 1,000 drives for 1,000 hours (roughly 42 days). If 1 drive fails during that window across the combined total of 1,000,000 operating hours, the drive model gets a "1,000,000-hour MTBF" rating.

An MTBF of 1,000,000 hours means that if you run 1,000 identical drives 24/7, you can statistically expect roughly 1 drive to fail every 1,000 hours across the whole array.

Yes, some can last longer and some can last shorter. When the IBM TravelStar 14.1GB was the latest and greatest 2.5" and came shipped wth a $8,000 IBM ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU, it lasted exactly 2 weeks and no data recovery companies was able to even get 0.1% of the data back. Fujitsu, Seagate and Hitachi TravelStar all which are 60GB didn't last more than a year or two before they also started failing. Only the Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM 2.5" drives actually lasted a long time. 3.5" drives last a lot longer as I am still running Western Digital 250GB PATA drives 24/7/365 from 23+ years ago.

 

[dishstaller]

I just realized, after my Wife reminded me of my age, that some of the younger crowd would have NO idea what I was referring to....so here goes.


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