1 hard drive dead ... 1 hard drive still good

[lazarus000]

original 40gb drive - dead
added 2nd 120gb drive - alive

i hooked both of my directivo drives to my computer and found out that only the primary drive died ... the 2nd one still shows up as viable.

If i 'instantcake' a new primary drive can i still use the secondary drive as is?

i was really hoping to get to all my recordings still on that larger secondary drive.

[hiker]

No, if you InstantCake, the recordings on the 2nd drive will be lost.

[localtech4hire]

Find recovery software and maybe you might get the files off of there..
As far as getting tivo to see it right, I'm not sure..

[lazarus000]

No, if you InstantCake, the recordings on the 2nd drive will be lost.
even if i don't format the 2nd drive again?

is instantcake different from regular tivo software.


anyway to save the stuff on the 2nd drive?

[JimSpence]

You really should have followed up in your original thread about this. :)
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=338078

Anyway, I believe that the two drives are married together and the software sees them as one drive. Once you split them, there's no way to remarry a new drive to the old one.

And continue your search in the underground forum.

[lazarus000]

You really should have followed up in your original thread about this. :)

Anyway, I believe that the two drives are married together and the software sees them as one drive. Once you split them, there's no way to remarry a new drive to the old one.

And continue your search in the underground forum.
i guess there should be permanent sticky that said "Never upgrade your tivo with a 2nd drive ... all you do is double your chances of complete failure"

:(

[JimSpence]

I added a 120GB drive to my T60 years ago. But then adding a second drive was quite common. So far so good. If the T60 loses a drive, then I'll add a large single. :)

[Dkerr24]

i guess there should be permanent sticky that said "Never upgrade your tivo with a 2nd drive ... all you do is double your chances of complete failure"

:(

Look for my posts, I've warned people here plenty of times of the dangers of using 2 hard drives in a DTivo unit. In addition, large capacity hard drives are so cheap, it's hard to justify placing 2 in a unit now.

[lazarus000]

Look for my posts, I've warned people here plenty of times of the dangers of using 2 hard drives in a DTivo unit. In addition, large capacity hard drives are so cheap, it's hard to justify placing 2 in a unit now.
yea ... it's been a couple years since i did that upgrade.

i'm just so ticked off

there's no reason for it ... Tivo could easily use a partition/storage type system.

That way if the tivo OS goes bad you could just re-install it on it's own partition and lose nothing. If one HD goes bad you would only lose the video stored on that drive.


it's terrible ... shows complete lack of concern for customers.