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mfsrestore inode errors... Any Help?!?
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Posted by: clorox

I am truly at a loss, and if you folks can't help me, then no one can. I'm trying to restore a downloaded HDVR2 image to my HDVR2, and I cannot get it to work for the life of me. The image just absolutely WILL NOT restore to the hard drive without several inode errors, and if there are no inode errors, I get a "memory exhausted" error. Clearly I have the command correct, as these errors only occur when the restore is cleaning up.

I don't know if many of you are familiar with the solution to this problem, but a search yielded little help.

On a related note, I am quite sure my drives are fine. I have done diagnostics for both the FAT32 drive that holds the image as well as the 80GB drive to which the image is being transferred. Also, of course it could be the image itself, but I'd venture to bet that it's not, since I got it from a location that a lot of other people get their backups. However, if anyone has a site from which I can get another HDVR2 image, that would be much appreciated.

I'm at the point where I'd just assume pay a forum member to load the image for me, since I'm at wits end with this.

TIA,

Clorox.

Posted by: Robert S

That's a very unusual problem. Normally MFS Tools will complain if the backup is corrupt. It doesn't seem quite right for a disk error either.

The normal procedure for these situations is to cop-out and tell people to use a different PC.

Posted by: clorox

Point well taken. I'll actually try my brother's computer and see what happens, then report back the results.

Posted by: Robert S

It's usually very straight-forward, so when it doesn't work, the tendency is to assume there's something odd about the PC.

Posted by: clorox

Is there anything I should do to the PC that might change things? For example, update the BIOS, use different RAM, etc? My MB supports both RAM types, so maybe switching to the old fashioned non-DDR would help? I'm just throwing out ideas here.

Thanks.

Posted by: Robert S

It certainly could be a RAM problem, but it's hard to tell. I wouldn't fiddle too much - you might break something. As I said the chances are the other PC will work first time.