Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Manchester
Posts: 3

... not.

Got back from holiday to find my Tivo had croaked it. I've had it six months, and I've been waiting for an excuse to upgrade the disk, but didn't think it would come like this!

Anyhow, I took the plunge and took the lid off. It's a Thompson 1x40Gb model checked cables etc, all ok. Took disk out, downloaded a copy of MFSTools 2.0, slapped the tivo disk in my PC. Not a good start when the PC bios reported that the Tivo disk was reporting a SMART imenient Drive Failure (I already knew that!)

I qunlocked the disk (it's a Quantum), and booted from the MFS CD. I did a mfsinfo /dev/hdb (that's where the Tivo disk is) and it reported:

mfs_load_zone_map: Primary zone map corrupt, loading backup map

and reported some info about the disk, so I know it's not in too bad a shape.

So, what are my options here. I don't have a backup, so I could go and get another (larger) disk and slap it in, but where will I get a software image from? Or does anyone have any info about tools to repair damaged tivo disks? (I doubt this would be worth it though as I think it's had it if SMART is reporting that the disk in knackered!).

Cheers for any help,
Si

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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
Posts: 9266

At least it's a nice unabmiguous disk failure, you can fix that. Try Rob Bellis (contact details in the Forum FAQ) for an image on CD. He's on holiday at the moment, so don't expect a quick response.

Any UK TiVo image will do, if you know anyone else with a TiVo.

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Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Posts: 51

Robert,

Hey I never though of that! My Dad has a TiVo so I could just pop out his drive, use it to make a back up then pop that back up on to my new drive I am going to get. Can't use my drive as it too has died big time!

Will the removal and replacement of his drive invalidate his warranty? I recall his "Warranty void if removed" sticker is stuck to the lid but not to the main case also so no one would know we had been in to it!

Rich

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