IF the old drive will last long enough to use disk imaging software, there's no reason I couldn't go that route is there?
________________________________ From: MegaZone <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:09:19 AM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] TiVo series 2 dead or dying drive Once upon a time Jeremy Sullivan shaped the electrons to say... > I've been worried about this drive for some time. Twice the TiVo > has been unresponsive with the hard drive clicking loudly, but > cycling power made it go away. Then some recordings were having > brief periods of extreme pixelation. Now it locks up occasionally > and doesn't always boot. That's a failing drive. > I'm going to try to Kick Start the TiVo, but if that doesn't work > (and I'm not hopeful) then I'll replace the hard drive. I have a > spare 80GB parallel IDE drive ready. Is this still the best > instructions on how to get this done? It may help it limp along by flagging bad sectors to avoid, but if the drive is clicking and showing those symptoms I'd just replace it before it dies. > http://www.newrelea sesvideo. com/hinsdale- how-to/index9. html Those will probably work, but these are newer: http://tivo. upgrade-instruct ions.com/ index.php Personally I think it is worth the $20 to just pick up an Instant Cake CD from DVRupgrade.com. It makes it trivial - just boot the CD and use the wizard, done. I did the manual process before and I've used Instant Cake, and I'd never do it manually again. My time is worth more than $20. -MZ -- megazone-at- megazone. org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie- Productions. com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
