Extracting Hard Drive from Directv Receiver

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We got rid of Directv a year or two ago, so the old Master Genie Receiver and the mini receivers are no use to us now. As you know the Master Genie Receiver is a DVR, as such it will contain a hard drive. These hard drives are almost always standard desktop computer hard drives, however they are almost always encrypted and using a proprietary filesystem. The reason for extracting these hard drives, is that with a simple reformat of the drive, you gain yourself a free, usable hard drive. Since these are in DVR's they are usually a decent capacity too, 500GB and 1TB are typical. What will we score? Find out in the video.

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@static_ls4004 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely a good find, considering going around to local thrift shops to pick up old receivers, most places around me sell them for like 10 bucks, if I could find 1tb drives in all of them I’d be thrilled.

@amolitee Жыл бұрын

These hard drives endure a lot of stress and might not always work

@MrSullyE 2 жыл бұрын

If you have to send the receiver back... it's probably not a good idea to 'open it up' to remove the HDD, or you may be charged. I'd like to copy the drive... as I was told I need to send mine back. I may sit on it awhile and see if they pester me. I paid for my first DVR, then it got replaced with a Genie... so I'm not convinced I need to return mine. Surprising on how many people say they didn't have to send theirs back... 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

@dujuanjohnson5025 3 ай бұрын

I still have my genie and stop using Directv for years now. They don’t bother me about it so it’s mines now 😊

@justinf1751 Ай бұрын

Were you able to still watch the recordings on the older dvr? I don’t have to send my genie back and having it replaced in a day

@xrilander 11 ай бұрын

I replaced mine with a WD Purple 2TB 256mb cache HD. The Green only has 64mb of cache, and isn't designed for constant read/write/erase. I'm surprised they last as long as they do.