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DevilDogs
11-26-2007, 09:59 PM
Hi all, I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I have an HDVR2, which I upgraded to a 120GB hard drive a couple of years ago. I haven't done any other hacks/upgrades to the device. The drive has the 6.3e software loaded. We seem to have a fair amount of power issues, so I have it hooked up to a UPS. Last night, my UPS started beeping (actually, a continuous tone). I hit the power on the UPS, waited for a few seconds, then turned it back on. The beeping continued. Basically, I powered off and on, unplugging things until it stopped beeping, and then plugging everything back in. I got everything plugged back in, but then I noticed the Tivo was stuck at "Welcome. Powering Up...". And yes, I waited for a while, just to make sure.

I still had the original 40GB drive (with the 3.1.1e software still on it), so I put it back in. It booted up, and everything was fine. I forced the daily call, and it downloaded for a while (at least an hour and a half). It is now pending restart, so I'm guessing it'll be back to 6.3e after restart.

So there's the background, now finally to the problem. I had a lot of shows on the 120GB drive. Due to the way it failed, I'm not 100% convinced that the drive failed, but perhaps data corruption in the form of a bad partition table, or who knows what. Is there anything I can do to fix the data corruption, or figure out what is exactly corrupted? I hope this topic isn't taboo, since it isn't dealing with extraction, I thought it would be ok.

With that said, at least I have the original drive, and I have a 160GB drive that I can put in. So with any luck, I'll be back up and running. But, I know I don't remember all of my wishlists and season passes. So if I can get the 120GB running again, I'll copy it to the 160GB instead of copying the 40GB.

Sorry for the length of the post, and hope someone can help.

JWThiers
11-27-2007, 08:04 AM
If you think it is just data corruption its Good News / Bad News. Good news is Spinrite can help recover some/most/all data depending on the severity of the corruption. Bad News $89 for first time buyers. and yes spinrite 6.0 is tivo compatible. got to grc.com for more info.

BTUx9
11-27-2007, 04:18 PM
before spending the $$ on spinrite, a tivo that fails to boot can have MANY causes.

If enough of the mfs system is intact, you may be able to pull the recordings you want to a PC. (search on DDB for mfs_tmfstream)

Since it sounds like your tivo wasn't hacked, you'll also have to make sure you grab the encryption key.