Re: Tivo Dead Hard Drive?

["Simon McCaughey" <simonmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You should be able to ghost it, and that drive will then be a full backup
(with all settings etc), and when you plug it in it will look exactly like
your other one did at the time of the backup

why not try it, you cant do any harm (just don't plug your TiVo drive into
winXP - but you knew that anyway)

BTW I am not speaking from experience, just lots of reading on TiVos

Simon


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mailing Lists" <mailing.lists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 9:53 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Tivo Dead Hard Drive?


> 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
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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