Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 15

Hi,


I've recently experienced my TiVo (240080) freezing up, and becoming very slow. Recordings freeze, and play.. and hard drive makes a louder clicking noise. Going to the TiVo menus take a long time and everything is just slow. I've rebooted, and even switched the power off, let it rest, and turn
on.. but to no avail.

After trolling through the forums and search the archives, it looks like my hard drive is about to die. =( A year and a month after I bought it.

Anyway, after reading hinsdale-how-to's and finding alternatives such as buying a replacement drop in drives, I'm considering doing it myself.

With the hard drive about to die, has anyone been able to backup the image successfully, and restore it to a larger hard drive??

I've searched the archives and found a lot about upgrading and replacing successfully, but wasn't sure if their hard drives were going bad, or were already bad. Just afraid to lose the image on the current drive if its already a bad hard drive.

Any thoughts?

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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
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Yes, as long as the TiVo still boots, you should be OK.

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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: RTP, NC
Posts: 37

That wasn't the case for me. I could still boot,a nd even start to watch stuff. But I couldn't get a good backup of it.

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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 15

So what did you do?

And if I can't get a good image of the bad hard drive, what are my options?

1. Find someone that has a good image? (as long as its the same model)
- lose my settings, recordings etc. end up with a spare HD if I don't find one.
- if I do, still cheaper than buying a drop-in HD

2. Buy a drop in HD that has TiVo image if I don't find a good backup.

Any others?

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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
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PTVupgrade sell a recovery CD called InstantCake that will reimage the drive automatically, so you won't lose the TiVo if you can't find a backup online.

However, I stand by what I said, if the TiVo still boots, you should be OK.

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Registered: Nov 2002
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And if you are going to backup or restore your harddrive make sure you buy a 120 Gigger. Only makes sense if you are going to have to open it up.

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