How can I connect my IDE HD from my DVR to my computer?

Question

I opened my LG DVR box and inside is a standard Seagate 80 gig ATA hard drive. I tried to plug it into my computer and my system hangs on the drive check even when I unplug all the drives and try to boot from the floppy - I know that the drive is fine since it works ok in the DVR.

The reason I'm going through this is that I want to see if I can copy the movies onto my computer and burn on DVD's using my authoring software which will use less compression - the LG software jumps from 120 min to 250 min format and most movies go from 120-130 minutes max, so that's a lot of lost resolution for nothing!

Hope someone has some REAL constructive ideas about this. Anyone who's not really technical or doesn't know, don't waste your time, this is a techie issue!

Answer 1

A couple things to consider:

1. Make sure the jumper setting is set correctly based on the drive's position on the cable. For example, if it's using the middle connector, make sure it's set to "slave". If it's attached to the end of the IDE cable, then it needs to be "master".

2. I would leave your main hard drive in your computer on the primary IDE channel, and attach the DVR hard drive as master on the secondary IDE channel by itself. Make sure that channel is using an 80-wire IDE cable.

Like you said, the BIOS has to recognize the drive during the POST test for it to have a chance in Windows.


Realize that many DVR's compress the data on the drive in such a way that you won't have any programs in Windows that can read the data in the form that it's in. You need to search on the net for specially designed decoders for your DVR that are able to convert the data into a usable format. Perhaps your DVR is not an issue, but I know that Dish Network DVR's have this kind of security.

Next time, I'm getting a DVR that has a burner built in...!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

if you are using a tivo/directv/DishNetwork dvr you are having a problem on the drive check because they are Linux partitions.

if you want to learn what you are doing...go to the below link.
http://dealdatabase.com/forum/
This has all the info you need to do what you want to do. I will warn you though.. they don't like stupid questions. If you haven't spent AT LEAST 2-3 days reading through the information provided don't bother to post.


If you already know the basic Linux commands and can fix your mistakes if you screw this up...click this link. Gunnyman is the man.
http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html

If your DVR model is not one listed as compatible, don't try it just in case it works. It won't. Go with option one and learn enough to customize the guide as needed.

The other option is to just buy a hacked drive and install it.

EDIT:
Disregard the answer from the person below me as they have no clue what they are talking about. If they REALLY worked for Microsoft they would most likely not only have basic grammar and spelling skills, but would understand (and use) basic punctuation instead of communicating on the level of a 12 year old.

Answer 4

this is what you do when you put the hard drive in make sure the dater cable is plug right into the back of the hard drive if its not right in the pc will hang on start up be4 you let it start up to the desktop as it is starting up gold down the del key go into the bios settings and check that the hard drive is set to auto boot from hard drive it must be set to auto you reset that hit the page down key to change it to auto then hit the esc key and f10 key save settings and restart the pc you can copy dvd movies on the to the hard drive but make sure you dont run out of free space on it less then 14 gb of space with only slow down the pc

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