Wow! I hoooked up the wires just like they were on a 4 wire molex, red, black, black , yellow and it caused my PS to reset ! so that is not whats wrong, when I hook it to the 15 pin power supply it gives an error. this is begining to be a pain unless someone has info on how to hook it up I am...
Update 3 I may have found the problem the molex from the dish receiver on this drive has 4 wires , my newer PS on my PC has 5 wires I will change out the molex's to 4 wires and see if that fixes it . because it works great till I hook it to my PS on my PC.
Update 2 I have found that the sleep command needs to be changed to never sleep, anyone kno where I would find these setting? Or a program that would be able to change the sleep command? Thanks.
Update!
I installed the drive back in the dish dvr receiver and it powered up, then I swapped the sata cable to one plugged into my MB and everything worked great. I was able to access it from windows, so I went ahead and formated it.
I was able to drag-n-drop files to it, so now I have a big...
Thanks , When I connect it to my PC it hangs on post I cant get into windows , and yes its a sata2 drive no jumpers . the bios see's the drive it then hangs up
Hello, I just upgraded my Dish Network box to the new Hopper system, I have the older Vip 722 system becuase I paid for it. It has a Hitachi 500g HD I have no other use of it So, My question is how do I go about converting the 500g HD that is in it to work on my pc? from what I can gather it has...