Lost recordings (Error:05)

[LostRecordings]

Hello,

I registered here to get help for an issue I'm having. It seems to be basically the same issue posted here Error Code 05 on DishScapes?

This happened the first time in May and now happened again over the weekend. It was the same receiver yet two different hard drives. It coincidentally (or not?) happened each time after about 6 months of making recordings on the drives. This weekend my drive with six months of recordings is unable to playback any of the recordings older than 5 months almost to the exact day this issue occurred.

I assume the programs are probably there but the filesystem has gotten partially messed up. Has anyone been successful in recovering programs off a drive?

The drive can still record shows normally and I never experienced any issues in playback of anything in the past 6 months so I assumed my previous drive was bad. However, now that this has happened to a second hard drive I guess the Vip211K must be bad.

I had been using the EHD feature on my receivers for years without issue (other than a previous receiver going bad and randomly rebooting). I have been with Dish for over 20 years but was thinking of cancelling my service as it has gotten incredibly expensive. I am now afraid to use my other hard drives of recorded programming as I fear the recordings will become corrupted; if that happens I'd definitely drop Dish

 

[zippyfrog]

Seeing this 3rd report of this beyond my initial post makes me wonder if Dish changed something with DVR recordings on the VIP211k. It is almost as if they expire now?? Every one of my recordings I used to be able to watch are now no longer playing. I posted that everything 10/14 and before no longer works. I just checked my oldest recording that plays, and it is from 10/21. I am going to check each day going forward and I wonder if it is going to stop working in the next couple of days.

 

[LostRecordings]

Seeing this 3rd report of this beyond my initial post makes me wonder if Dish changed something with DVR recordings on the VIP211k. It is almost as if they expire now?? Every one of my recordings I used to be able to watch are now no longer playing. I posted that everything 10/14 and before no longer works. I just checked my oldest recording that plays, and it is from 10/21. I am going to check each day going forward and I wonder if it is going to stop working in the next couple of days.

Yes, that is what happened to me previously. More of the oldest recordings became unplayable. Looking at various old threads regarding this error, one thread included someone from Dish replying that there was some unknown error in an update that corrupted recordings. I have a feeling Dish screwed something up. I doubt Dish updates regionally or anything like that, but just as an FYI I am in the NW burbs.