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A Drive went bad -- replaced, but questions remain..
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Posted by: delusion_

Over the past few months my TiVo has been acting "strange", sometimes going glitchy while recording, or dropping frames during playback, etc.. so I opened up the unit, took out the hard drive and threw it into my computer. Upon booting, the BIOS found a SMART error right off the bat "Imminant failure -- please replace drive immediately." Sweet! So I loaded up Hinsdale's guide and was able to copy/expand my TiVo hard drive onto a brand new 120gig WD drive. The new drive works fine, but I was wondering if "system data" could have possibly been corrupted on the old hard drive, and if those errors could have been copied over to the new drive? If there was errors, is there some sort of "readonly" or "mirroring" protection that TiVo does with it's system files? If not, am I doomed to have problems a few hours/days/weeks down the road?

Should I find a blank image for my TiVo and just restore that and start all over again?

Heh, sorry for the million questions. Just wondering.

Posted by: Robert S

I think you'd be aware of any such issues by now. The system partitions take up a relatively small part of the disk, so the vast majority of bad blocks are going to be in the recording partitions.

People who catch their drives at the 'stutters occasionally' stage seem to do OK.

Posted by: delusion_

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Originally posted by Robert S
I think you'd be aware of any such issues by now. The system partitions take up a relatively small part of the disk, so the vast majority of bad blocks are going to be in the recording partitions.

People who catch their drives at the 'stutters occasionally' stage seem to do OK.

Wow, that was a quick response. Thanks, I probably have nothing to worry about. I deleted all the old recorded shows anyhow just to start over.