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So it WAS my B drive
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Posted by: gamefixer

So after hours of farting around with this SAT-T60 I decided to take a closer look at the drives. The first thing I noticed was that my B drive wasnt even spinning!

I took the cover off the back of it to find a voltage regulator and an IC on the controller fried! Its my understanding that in a two drive Tivo the shows are stored on the second drive... If I understand that correctly I can restore my TiVo by divorcing the drives but I wont have any show data. The good thing is that I will keep all my SP's and the like.

Do I have this right?

Now, if I can only figure out how to divorce these damn things!

BTW, my B drive was/is a Seagate ST328040A. If any of you have one that your not using I'd be happy to cough up $50.00 plus shipping for it. If Im right by replacing the controller I should be able to gain access to the recordings...

Thanks all!

Posted by: Robert S

Sadly not, you're going to have to reimage from an existing backup file :(

All the system partitions are on the A drive, but the way that MFS works, you need all the partitions on both drives to boot the TiVo or make a backup.