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Failed A drive, save programming off of B?
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Posted by: ckiefer22

Basically the title says it all... either I'm not good at searching the forums, or no one has really asked this question yet. Here's the deal, my A drive crashed, but the B drive is still good:

I upgraded my 14 hour Tivo a while back (added a 30 Quantum), and made a back up hard drive (back when that was the only option for backing up), so currently my Tivo is up and working again... but I have news broadcasts from 9/11, and my husband was planning on putting it all to tape on that still good 30 gig quantum drive.

I have a Linux server running in my home... is there some way to take the 30 hour drive, place it in my Linux system (or Windows system, which ever) and rescue the programming on it? My husband claims that he heard that the Tivo just records in MPEGs?!?

Right now I'm sitting around with a 14 hour Tivo, and it's just not enough... I need to do something with that still good 30 hour drive.

Hope this isn't too confusing.:confused:

Posted by: Robert S

Sorry, it's gone. TiVo drives form 'married' pairs and can not work independently (the recordings get scattered across both drives, infact).

There are no tools for extracting the MPEG-2 streams from TiVo drives mounted in a PC (that's a banned topic, anyway).

MFS Tools requires a operational TiVo drive set to make a backup.

If you have empty space on your backup drive, MFS Tools 2.0's mfsadd function will let you use it for recordings (see New Hinsdale).

Posted by: ckiefer22

Thanks for the prompt reply... too bad I can't get that programming off of there. My husband will be so dissapointed.

I take it that I can simply re-bless the 30gig drive and toss it back into the Tivo, then? I'm very excited about being able to create a back up copy of the current drive to CD. Having to purchase another hard drive to store it was an expensive pain the last time (what, a year and a half ago?!?).

Thanks again!

Posted by: Robert S

If your backup drive is exactly the same as the original (ie, no added partitions) then you can use BlessTiVo.

I would recommend using MFS Tools 2.0's mfsadd function in preference to BlessTiVo.