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backup/ copy Dish Network files to new drive

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I have a USB drive attached to my Dish Network receiver. The drive is full. I have a new (bigger) drive and I want to copy the shows from the old drive to the new one.

Dish Network is telling me I have to move the shows, one at a time, from the old drive, back to the receiver and then send them to the new drive. They don't allow more than one drive attached at a time so this means a lot of disk swapping and the movement of files is painfully slow.

Is there any way to use True Image to copy these files? I know they are linux files, and I know they are encrypted. My PC is using Win7. I don't want to change them in any way, the encryption is fine with me as long as I can move them and still have the receiver recognize them. It is IMHO ludicrous to have to go through the agonizing process the Dish rep described just to move files to a new hard drive. Clearly I am not trying to pirate anything, because I'm perfectly fine with the encryption staying in place.

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It may well be there is some form of protection on the Dish drive. The only way I can think of is to either temporarily install the original and new drive either into your PC or two external cases and then clone the drive.

My concern would be if there is some form of copy protection which for example could render the original drives contents unreadable if the drive is accessed outside the Dish box.

Have you searched the internet to see if others have tried this?