Recover philips dvd recorder harddrive?

[DVDnick]

Hi!
Perhaps someone knows if this is possible. I have a Philips DVDR 3570H that I would like to try to connect the harddrive to my pc to recover data from it. (I have a USB/IDE adapter.) After I used split on some of the recordings, it suddenly reported that harddrive was empty. I am pretty sure that it is not empty, cause it didnt't "work" long and I did not press format or delete, and I read that this is something that can happen to this recorder if you split a long recording to many times (which is what I did). I have not recorded anything since that, I'm afraid I would spoil my chances then.
Now, if I connect it to the PC, I expect that I need some software or some tricks to be able to save the recordings.
Anyone knows of anything? Think it's even worth the try?

[DB83]

Take a look at this topic

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/353769-Connecting-a-PVR-drive-to-a-PC

At the end there is a link to a software driver that may allow you to access that drive by a PC - without a driver then no chance.

Then, you will need file recovery software since I would imagine that the hdd is corrupted. There are various ones and a search of these forums will give you many choices. The one I have used successfully on 'empty' drives is called ZAR. The problem here is that your drive will not be formatted for NTFS so these recovery problems will probably not work.

[DVDnick]

Thanks so much for the tip! I will try it, and if I succed I will report back here. Think a lot of others have or will have the same problem some time. I can live without the dvd but the content on it are more important.

[fzabkar]

If its's a Linux file system, and if your files are not encrypted ...

Freeware Linux Reader for Windows:
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

"This program plays the role of a bridge between your Windows and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, HFS and ReiserFS file systems."

[Steef82]

Hi!

In my adventure to copy DVD clips from my Samsung DVD-HR770 Harddisk Recorder to a pc, I finally got a breakthrough!
Although this is a very old thread, I just wanted to let you guys know that I succeeded with the Disk Internals Linux reader (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader)

First I removed the harddisk from the recorder and connected it via an IDE/SATA-USB adapter to the PC. The Linux reader was then able to extract the data and copied it to my harddisk.

The adapter I used was the Ewent EW7016 (http://www.ewent-online.com/ewent-ew7016-ewent-em7016-usb-3-0-to-ide-sata-converter.html)

Cheers!
Steven

[redwudz]

Steef82, Do not post the same topic on several forums.
Please do not cross post, once is enough.

Duplicate post deleted.

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