Hello all,
My QIP7232 will not power on. I have been sent a replacement DVR. Having some very important programming saved on the old DVR, I was hoping it would be possible to swap out the hard drive (HD) on the dead DVR and plug it into the new one and be able to retain all those shows and movies.
While the new DVR with the old HD in it does display the show information for the shows that were recorded, when I play any of them, there is no feed. The screen blacks out. If I record something new onto it, I am able to play back that feed just fine.
I noticed that the replacement DVR they sent me is 3 years older than the dead one I have, and the board is stamped with numbers that reflect it's a revision behind the one I had.
My question is, has anyone successfully swapped out HDs on DVRs in a scenario like this one? Is the issue that the boards are not identical? Or is every single DVR uniquely encrypted so that HDs cannot be swapped, regardless of boards being identical?
I greatly appreciate any advice and assistance you all can provide. Hopefully, this will be helpful to others as well.
Thanks in advance,
Alex