Hi guys!
So recently my Dish 722k receiver died...and I wouldn't really care, but it had a ton of precious recordings on there! Here's the thing, so I plug it in, it powers on and I can hear the fan running. It shows the "starting up..." screen, but then a few seconds later it doesn't give any signal to my TV. Then it'll do it again, and again, and again - it repeats this process for as long as it's plugged in. It's basically stuck on some sort of cycle. It's been doing this for like 2 months now. I've tried everything. Hard reset, different sockets, giving it a break, nothing. Except one time, I left it on for a few hours and it came back to life, but the video was lagging/skipping and the screen would flash pink a lot. It eventually died again after 1 hour. I tried this method again, but that was the last time it ever turned on 🙁. From what you guys know, does this sound like a hard drive issue or some other component issue?
Anyways, fast forward to now and I've got the cover off and I have plugged the DVR's internal hard drive into my laptop through a SATA to eSATA cable. When I boot up Ubuntu on my laptop, it only recognizes 4GB on the hard drive...although this hard drive inside the 722k is a 500GB Hitachi. So then I booted into Windows, and it started installing the device driver for the Hitachi -- good, but then I had to leave and go do something real quick and my laptop had shut down for some reason. When I booted up to windows again, I could not get it to recognize the Hitachi again!
Basically, at this point, I'm desperate to just make a clone/copy of the hard drive so that I can try to get it to work with other dish receivers later on, or watch the recordings on my PC (the precious recordings are basically a bunch of different moments when me and some of my family members/friends have been on TV, nobody else really has all the footage from those segments in their entirety, except for me, but now that the receiver's dead, I don't have it anymore! That content isn't even online anywhere, it just aired once, so that's not an option at all. Basically it's just a bunch of personal stuff that I really don't want to lose!!). Can someone please guide me on how to do this?? I've got a really limited amount of time with this, so please help if you can!!
Thanks!
So recently my Dish 722k receiver died...and I wouldn't really care, but it had a ton of precious recordings on there! Here's the thing, so I plug it in, it powers on and I can hear the fan running. It shows the "starting up..." screen, but then a few seconds later it doesn't give any signal to my TV. Then it'll do it again, and again, and again - it repeats this process for as long as it's plugged in. It's basically stuck on some sort of cycle. It's been doing this for like 2 months now. I've tried everything. Hard reset, different sockets, giving it a break, nothing. Except one time, I left it on for a few hours and it came back to life, but the video was lagging/skipping and the screen would flash pink a lot. It eventually died again after 1 hour. I tried this method again, but that was the last time it ever turned on 🙁. From what you guys know, does this sound like a hard drive issue or some other component issue?
Anyways, fast forward to now and I've got the cover off and I have plugged the DVR's internal hard drive into my laptop through a SATA to eSATA cable. When I boot up Ubuntu on my laptop, it only recognizes 4GB on the hard drive...although this hard drive inside the 722k is a 500GB Hitachi. So then I booted into Windows, and it started installing the device driver for the Hitachi -- good, but then I had to leave and go do something real quick and my laptop had shut down for some reason. When I booted up to windows again, I could not get it to recognize the Hitachi again!
Basically, at this point, I'm desperate to just make a clone/copy of the hard drive so that I can try to get it to work with other dish receivers later on, or watch the recordings on my PC (the precious recordings are basically a bunch of different moments when me and some of my family members/friends have been on TV, nobody else really has all the footage from those segments in their entirety, except for me, but now that the receiver's dead, I don't have it anymore! That content isn't even online anywhere, it just aired once, so that's not an option at all. Basically it's just a bunch of personal stuff that I really don't want to lose!!). Can someone please guide me on how to do this?? I've got a really limited amount of time with this, so please help if you can!!
Thanks!
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