Bell PVR External Hard Drive – Can I Copy the Files to a Computer?

You cannot even use that external hard drive on another bell reciever, it can only be recognized by the receiver that recorded it. If you plug that hard drive into another receiver, it will only reformat the drive.

Contrary to being married to a single receiver, this is not true. Married to your subscription as a whole, possible. Have an external USB drive loaded with recordings off Bell ExpressVu and I can hot swap the drive from receiver to receiver in the house and not lose anything. Yes each receiver wants to setup the drive once detected, but I lose nothing.