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If your A drive fails what do you do?
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Posted by: drain69

On a series two unit If your A drive fails and you don't have a backup what do you do? Could you buy a new unit and take the new A drive out, hook it up with an expanded B drive and things would work? Or would you need to hook the drives up and run MFStools again?

Thx

Posted by: Worf

You ask the board for a backup, and sit around waiting for the reply as the punishment for not making a backup in the first place...

And yes, you have to run MFSTools again.

Posted by: Wojski

I like Worf's answer, but are you sure the A drive has failed?

I had a similar situation (longer story than I'd like to share) and I was dead convinced that my original drive was going bad... until I traced it to the OS update.

Run it through the diagnostics and see if it really has failed.

Posted by: Autobott

how did you fix the OS update problem?

Posted by: Robert S

I think he means the way a very small number of machines developed a stutter after upgrading to 3.0. The problem seems to relate to the conversion of the Guide database. The problem will fix itself as the Guide data is purged by the garbage collector (although this takes three weeks!) or you can use the reset menu to clear out the old DB and download fresh Guide data that doesn't trigger this problem.