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