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But still its clunky, loud, and just plain ugly. August 12, July 22, January 2, Your iPhone is more powerful than this damn box. Unlike this box though, your iPhone is actually responsive to your commands. But hey, at least it does video on demand Just get a damn TiVo. August 13, While the HD is a serviceable unit, and outputs good-looking HD all depending on the source material, of course , the interface is extremely bare-bones, lacking most of the features present in newer, more modern DVR devices.

The device can be set to upconvert source material, or to pass through original resolutions untouched if you prefer your TV does the upconversion. The on-screen guide is very basic, and does not have any search functionality. Recording timers can be set to grab all occurrences of a show on a particular channel, only first-run episodes, or to just record a specific time slot regardless of the program. It also hampers the ability to store HD movies long-term for later viewing.

While the unit has an impressive number of ports, including IE, external SATA, multiple USB ports, and even Ethernet, almost all cable companies disable most of the ports through firmware settings even though this violates FCC regulations on cable box rentals , intentionally crippling the device.

Most people seem to report that the SATA port is usually not disabled, so it is possible to attach external storage if the cable company allows it, though be aware the the device automatically formats the drive when you attach it the first time.

July 2, Part of this is due the program guide naming conventions, e. This box still has the janky SD program guide from the series. At least the esata and fireware ports are unlocked. Fingas , Twitter Facebook Reddit Mail. Lawler , Once this is done we will have eliminated some of the guess work with the esata driver etc.

If it is showing up in the drive manager you should be able to run get data back for ntfs on it even if it shows up as unallocated.

Unless the drive was recently defraged then chances of recovering large files ie, video file fully intact is low. You may recover part of the file, but the end of it could be corrupted, but you wont know until you try. It will most likely find the partition near the beginning of the HDD usually sector 64 if i remember correctly It will tell you what type of partition it is. It will then give you the option to write the correct partition map to the disk. After this you will need to re-boot to access the partition.

Use a program like HD Tune to make sure the drive is functioning correctly. If the drive is failing we could just be wasting our time. Posted November 27, edited. Sounds like Windows is being a pain in the ass again for no particular reason, unless it is hardware related. On that note would you mind listing your system specifications maybe some references on the net to your motherboard having a screwy eSATA port.

Reminds me of the fact my gold plated usb connected keyboard occasionally doesn't power up when my computer does -. While I was exploring the drive's box for a way to open it I found a small rectangular area that appeared to be a cover. With a LOT of fussing I was able to remove it.

I expected to find a screw or something My computer found the drive , and under "Devices and Printers":. Posted November 28, Posted November 28, edited. Posted December 2, edited. You are correct -- I only scanned for FAT tables. It may format the drive even if it is FAT, but it's worth a shot. After it's formated and ready to go, I'll attempt to copy the MBR, or whatever it uses, so I'll know what info it requires.

Possibly that's where they store the "Code" that prevents the drive from working with a different machine. I'll see if that's true by trying it with a different Explorer DVR. I wouldn't mind finding a way to transfer the movie files to a different drive so I can edit them, and transfer them to DVDs. IF we can recover them. Posted December 2, You will be able to leave a comment after signing in. My first post here Sure looks like an "interesting" site! Register for an account.

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