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Error Restoring Partitions
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Posted by: wmacson

Hi...I truely have spent the last 2 hours searching and reading every post that had to do with "error restoring partitions" and I still can't figure out what my problem is.

Here is what has happened so far. I took the original 60gb WD Home entertainment drive out of a 60 Hour standalone series 2 tivo. The drive was damaged as it wouldn't get past the welcome powering up stage.

The first couple of times I tried to restore the image on it, I got the message "First target drive to small." So I took the -x out of it and it started restoring. It got to about 300 megabytes out of 816 and it said "error restoring partitions...20% compression." So I tried it again this time it got to 750 out of 816 megabytes and it said "Error Restoring MFS Data." So I tried it again and this time it only went to 9 out of 816 megabytes and it said "Error Restoring Partitions."

Now it does it everytime. It goes to 9 megabytes and says "Error Restoring partitions." Any suggestions? I am open to anything.

Thanks in advance.

Will

Posted by: Robert S

I would suspect that that hard drive is damaged.

You can download a diagnostics utility from WD that may confirm that.

Posted by: wmacson

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Originally posted by Robert S
I would suspect that that hard drive is damaged.

You can download a diagnostics utility from WD that may confirm that.

Thanks Robert. I did what you suggested and it is indeed a damaged drive. To the trash it goes!

Posted by: Robert S

Is it worth checking to see if the drive is still warrantied?

Posted by: wmacson

Well, it says on the drive it was manufactured in Jan. 2002, so I guess it could be. I will call WD tomorrow. You never know.....