newbie question pioneer dvr-433h hard drive restore?

[isakiel]

hi what i need to find out is that i had four security films on my harddrive which where accidentally erased i desperately need to restore these file have contacted pioneer but they have told me that there
isnt an operating system on the hard drive and no recovery can be performed can anybody help me

[pio433]

Yes you can try what i tried.
I took the HDD out from Pioneer DVR, and used as an USB drive with my laptop. I run several HDD recovery softwares, and finelly I found this:
Stellar Phoenix BSD - Data Recovery Software
It was good becaouse the Pioneer DVR HDD formated with OpenBsd Linux system.
I saved 24 Gb file. The only problem was, that mor than one movie was in a large file. You cab later edit (seperat) it.
Could you write me, what happend with your Hdd?

[isakiel]

hi pio433 just read your reply
could i ask a few questions
which operating system is your laptop running and which of the Stellar Phoenix BSD software programs did you get as there are quite a few
thnx isakiel

[pio433]

Hi isakiel,
I use MsWIndows XP on my laptop. And used the BSD version of the Stellar Phoenix program.

[mikeknoop]

Hey all, I realize this post is quite old but it is still very relevant in Google searches for corrupt Pioneer DVR harddrives. I had a 633H drive corrupt on me last week. I wrote a few scripts to help me recover the contents successfully (which I have completed). You can see all the fun details here: http://knoopgroup.com/blog/pioneer-dvr-harddrive-recovery-tools/

Mike