Recovered from Green Screen of Death...now what?

[dqdude]

So my 2 year old Series 3 with an upgraded internal and external drive has been rebooting on its own maybe once a week during normal viewing hours once or twice a week for the past 2 months.

Today...I got a green screen a death and luckily recovered from it. Now I am left wondering what there is I can do to cover my rear. I would rather be proactive and do what I can now to prevent any data loss.

Can I make a copy of my current internal hard drive including recorded shows being I have an external drive too?

If not...can I make a copy of my internal drive so I can keep my season passes and only use the new drive once my old drive goes out completely. I know I'll probably have to reprogram or reformat my external drive once the new internal drive goes in.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

[mr.unnatural]

I'd definitely consider replacing the hard drive. You can do a complete copy of the existing drive to a new one with all shows and settings intact. There's lots of info here on cloning a Tivo hard drive so check through the sticky threads.

[V7Goose]

Pull your drives and do extended diagnostics now instead of waiting. If you do find problems, you cannot replace just one drive of a pair, so you are going to loose your recordings. I do think there is a new version of one of the copy programs that is supposed to copy married drives together, but if you have bad sectors, you are probably going to have a problem copying the data anyway. A backup of the current internal drive with WinMFS will keep everything except the recordings and can be used to prepare a new internal drive if needed. But like the other guy said, there is lots of that info here, so do some research. I'd look particularly at the Upgrade forum and the official eSATA thread at the top of this one - the first post there will teach you a lot. Good luck.

[dqdude]

I was more concerned with copying married drives. I know how to copy just the internal info without the recordings.

I'm happy to hear I might be able tocopy married drives and lose nothing. Yippee!