recovering data from dead Dish 625 hard drive

[indzombie]

This maybe a waste of everyones time but is there anyway that the data can be recovered from a Dish 625 dvr with a dead hard drive. We are Dish subscribers but Dish will only offer to send us a replacement unit. Problem is that there are recordings of a local channel game show that our child competed in that we want to recover.

I know that there are hard drive recovery / rebuild clean rooms that state that they can recover data but no word on whether they will deal with a Dish hard drive. Any advise would be appreciated even if it is to move on to a new Dish dvr that allows usb back up drives (the 625 reportedly will not).

Thank you

 

[TheKrell]

Are you sure it's the disk? If the receiver crumped and the drive is OK, you could pull the contents off the drive by taking it out of the receiver and hooking it up to a PC and using PVRExplorer. Note that there are seals on the drive cage, so it's generally ill advised to do that to a leased receiver.

 

[Pepper]

Longer IDE and power cables can overcome that obstacle without breaking the warranty stickers/seals.

 

[whatchel1]

yahoo groups

Would suggest you visit the yahoo groups PVRExplorer & Dishmod. If you can't do it then maybe the guy AFB can he is a guru there. He won't do illegal stuff though.

 

[dnero]

If those suggestions do no work seeing the videos of your daughter are important to you try contacting the channel that broadcast the events if they still have the archives they might be able for a small fee make a DVD of these for you.

 

[Bob Haller]

If those suggestions do no work seeing the videos of your daughter are important to you try contacting the channel that broadcast the events if they still have the archives they might be able for a small fee make a DVD of these for you.

I appeared briefly on KDKA news as a child during a teachers strike. Thats eons ago I wonder if the footage, a short clip still exists?

 

[harshness]

I appeared briefly on KDKA news as a child during a teachers strike. Thats eons ago I wonder if the footage, a short clip still exists?

TV stations typically aren't much into archiving anymore as they've changed storage formats numerous times. The only way to find out is to ask them.

 

[Bob Haller]

KDKA used to have the it parade, a short section of archived footage.

I will call and ask it cant hurt Heck I would pay for the clip.

A short one I was in the background of a interview with my Damiani, who headed the first teachers union in pittsburgh way back in the early 60s