Tivo Dead Hard Drive?

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Oh no, just a few weeks back I'd finally gotten SWMBO to admit that the
Tivo
is a great bit of kit, and yesterday it goes and dies on me!

Symptons are:

freezing on the powering up screen
some times it does power up, but then live tv / any recorded shows jump and
freeze / go blocky
really slow navigation and freezing in the menus

Does this sound like the hard drive is on the way out?

When I originally bought the Tivo (Jan 03) I upgraded it with a 120gig
drive
and an Airnet card.  I've got a spare 120gig drive to swap out, is it
possible to do a Ghost (assuming the existing drive lasts long enough)?
This
would save me from having to go through the time consuming task of setting
it all up from scratch.  Or if I follow the freeranger.co.uk guide again
and
do the copy that way, will it "mirror" the old drive (i.e. keep
all the
Airnet drivers and settings, tivoweb and other customisations)?


Thanks,

Martyn