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Can I put hard drive from dead U-verse DVR into new replacement DVR when it arrives?
Our U-Verse DVR from Circa 2015 died, total brick no LED lights or nothing. The wall wart power supply reads 12V at the coaxial connector, I tried a known good 12V 2A power supply but it made no difference. Since I received an Email that I don't need to return the old equipment, I pulled out the hard drive (was easy if you have a "security bit kit"). Drive appears fully functional with three partitions, and it appears to be some old Windows CE system software.
The new DVR is supposed to arrive this evening, my question is can I put the old hard drive into the new replacement DVR and finish watching the series that we've recorded? These were on FX network which doesn't seem to rebroadcast them very often. They don't seem to be offered "On Demand".
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Juniper
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17 days ago
As I understand, just like DirecTV with U-Verse recordings are encrypted to their exact DVR. This means non-transferable between boxes, drives, etc.
Also opening any boxes you don't own (since they are owned by the provider) is not permitted.
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baseballisback
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17 days ago
Here's the other issue:
Some people have received the email about "no need to return equipment" that you did, then they'll get one saying "we see you haven't returned the equipment".
So what you'll want to do is to put that old equipment in a closet for about a year or so before you recycle it.
You could certainly try swapping hard drives, but keep in mind it may not work and if you do end up needing to return anything, you run any and all risks of damaged equipment.
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wkulecz
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16 days ago
Answer is the new DVR is totally different than the old one, might not even have SATA storage inside is it so light. Took over an hour to "activate", not nice that AT&T will spy on what I'm recording but make no provision to transfer what I've recorded in the event of equipment failure.
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JefferMC
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16 days ago
You could "upgrade" to DIRECTV stream, and all your recordings would be in the cloud and safe from hardware failures (in your home, statistically, very safe from hardware failures in the cloud).
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