Problems with External Harddrive

[kshaw]

I plugged a Western Digital 2TB external harddrive to my Hopper 3 for the first time and was told that I needed to reformat the drive (had been used prior with our VIP612). I reformatted the drive and copied a whole bunch of shows without any error messages. When I plugged it in again to the Hopper 3 it tells me that the harddrive needs to be formatted again. I plugged the drive into a laptop running Disk Genius and it shows the partitions but shows they need to be formatted. I can recover small files from the disk using Disk Genius but the larger files on the drive require an upgrade to Disk Genius. Any other options to recover these shows?

 

[arlo]

you cant just unplug them me thinks. you need to do a proper eject.

 

[JS_racer]

superblocks seems to have an issue, ran into that before with my 722k,
all data is still there, just need to use linux to repair the superblock

 

[kshaw]

Do you know where I can find the Linux commands to do this?

 

[TheKrell]

Do you know where I can find the Linux commands to do this?

I believe a 2TB disk will be partitioned into 5 ext3 partitions. If you don't have a LInux already installed somewhere, I would recommend a liveDVD of your favorite distribution. JS racer can correct me if I'm wrong. But I think he's talking about running fsck on each partition. (I don't remember if you can do that on the whole partitioned disk.)

 

[ArrayIndex]

Do this:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4M count=25

where /dev/sdb is your external drive.

Plug it back in to the hopper and let it format. It should work fine afterwords.

Please be careful with dd. It is a good tool to shoot yourself in the foot. Double and triple check that you have the right drive.

 

[TheKrell]

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4M count=25

where /dev/sdb is your external drive.

Note to OP. This will overwrite the partition table on that EHD with zeros, and you will lose all your programs.

 

[Jim5506]

Have you called Dish to have them send a re-hit to your receiver, this often makes the receiver see a drive that was on a different receiver but on the same account.