lvirden
10-27-2007, 05:20 AM
Two weeks ago, my tivo series 2 began attempting to install the fall upgrade. It never finished... it went into a cycle of rebooting, saying it was nearly finished, then rebooting again :eek: .
I asked a good friend, who had upgraded my tivo to 2 of those maxtor 160gb 7200 rpm ultra drives initially, if he would mind running a disk scan on the drives. This happened a couple of years ago, and when he did that, it found a few bad sectors, blocked them out, and tivo was back running.
Well, when the scan started this time, it got to about 10% of the first drive and started running to problems. Last I heard, the scan had taken over 24 hrs and was still at around 10%.
Doesn't sound good for Tivo :(
So, now I'm faced with what to do next. Right now, I'm assuming that I am going to have to replace both drives - can't tell if either are working right.
So, assuming that is the best way to go, some questions:
1. what's a comperable drive to look for today? I mean, when I look through a lot of online stores I'm seeing loads of SATA drives - those aren't going to work for me.
2. I was wondering if there are other things that should be considered at this time as well - should more memory be added to the system? I just want to get TiVo back and working at least as good as it was before, but would prefer not to go through this again any time soon...
;)
3. I've seen references at times to companies who would do all the clean up, replace drives with software already installed, even I think attempts at copying the old info if possible. I really hate losing the couple hundred plus hrs of shows I hadn't gotten a chance to view - anyone tried those types of sites with success?
Any other words of warning or encouragement?
Finally, a wishlist item - why oh why can't I find a tivo remote that
comes when I call... that doggone remote wanders off and hides from me at least once a week... :p
I asked a good friend, who had upgraded my tivo to 2 of those maxtor 160gb 7200 rpm ultra drives initially, if he would mind running a disk scan on the drives. This happened a couple of years ago, and when he did that, it found a few bad sectors, blocked them out, and tivo was back running.
Well, when the scan started this time, it got to about 10% of the first drive and started running to problems. Last I heard, the scan had taken over 24 hrs and was still at around 10%.
Doesn't sound good for Tivo :(
So, now I'm faced with what to do next. Right now, I'm assuming that I am going to have to replace both drives - can't tell if either are working right.
So, assuming that is the best way to go, some questions:
1. what's a comperable drive to look for today? I mean, when I look through a lot of online stores I'm seeing loads of SATA drives - those aren't going to work for me.
2. I was wondering if there are other things that should be considered at this time as well - should more memory be added to the system? I just want to get TiVo back and working at least as good as it was before, but would prefer not to go through this again any time soon...
;)
3. I've seen references at times to companies who would do all the clean up, replace drives with software already installed, even I think attempts at copying the old info if possible. I really hate losing the couple hundred plus hrs of shows I hadn't gotten a chance to view - anyone tried those types of sites with success?
Any other words of warning or encouragement?
Finally, a wishlist item - why oh why can't I find a tivo remote that
comes when I call... that doggone remote wanders off and hides from me at least once a week... :p