No if I was a regular dish subscriber I would have just called and they would have sent out a replacement dvr.

I got it to work. I tried the Menu-6-3-Info-Right-Left-TV/Video to clear the NVRAM and the the Menu-6-3-Info-Right-Left-Play-Play-Recall to clear the HDD. I then unplugged and replugged the 722 and it took a while but it said hard drive failure. I messed around doing that with the old drive...

I installed a ST3500312CS and it didn't work! I just get hard drive failure still.

I am a dish retailer and I talked to a regional manager who said that dish will dump the 26,000 subs on the satellite asap. He also said they don't have any official plan for the sat.