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MFSTools 2.0 and Bad Sectors??
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Posted by: rblancojr

I am moving my Tivo over from (2) 80GB Maxtors to (2) 120GB Western Digitals.

I am in the middle of the copy process right now, and while performing the copy with MFS Tools, the software has encountered a few problems copying certain blocks. I suspect that it is a bad sector / bad block problem on a specific spot of my "A" drive as I noticed a little bit of hiccuping on a show a few days back.

My question is whether or not I should be worried about the "integrity" of the information on the "NEW" drives once MFS Tools completes the copying process?

If there are a few bad blocks on one of my OLD drives, what can I expect on the new one? Would there be a huge "skip" from one part of a show to another in the problematic area sicne the data for that show was never really "copied"?

Posted by: rblancojr

Part 2:

The copy completed and aside from the erros listed above, MFS did not display any final errors and stated that all megabytes were copied over.

HOWEVER!!! Upon booting up the Tivo, the following occurs:

First Boot: Tivo starts up properly and "mini-Tivo" commercial is displayed.
A few minutes pass and a green screen saying:

"A Severe Error has occured. Leave your Tivo hooked up to the phone line for 3 hours while the unit attempts to repair itself. Do not reboot the unit."

Now the Tivo is starting up, and when it is about to get to the main screen, it displays the error above and reboots itself.

ANY IDEAS? I am goign to see how long this cycle goes for, but PLEASE offer any feedback ro suggestions.

Thanks