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Frozen/Bad Hard Drive?/Upgrade
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Posted by: nic575

Hi, hope you guys can help. Came home yesterday to my Tivo frozen on the first start up screen (black b/g, tivo, ptv receiver starting up). I tried unplugging and restarting and all that. From several messages here it seems as if one of my drives may have died.

I have a Phillips 30 hr, that I added another drive to to get 101hrs. I copied the original A drive and have been going off the copy in my system. Is there anyway to tell what drive died on me A or B.

What would be the easiest way to restore the system and to copy the recordings I have onto a new disk. If it was the B drive, can I get a bigger drive and copy the info over and have more space as well.

Any help would be mucho appreciated. Thanks guys.

Posted by: Radnor

I'd take out the new drive and plug it into a PC and load up some sort of diagnostic utility-- the drive should've come with a bootable 3.5" disk.

After the diagnostic has run you should be able to see if that drive was at fault or not. It might be as simple as doing a disk copy (dd) with one of hinsdale's boot CDs or disks. I just did a replacement of a drive with the same space amount and it seems to work, except most of my recordings are no longer playable :(.