Samsung Power Supply USA - or Hard Drive

[John T Smith]

I checked the power supply threads the forum suggested, and see one for replacing a capacitor and another for the UK

Then http://www.weaknees.com/tivo-power-supply.php shows a picture, and I do not see a fan in the power supply, just a really large heat sink

My problem is... a HUGE amount of mechanical noise from either hard drive (replaced just over six months ago, so just off warranty) or case fan (replaced at same time I put in a 250 drive to replace the original 120 drive)

I'm going to open the case today and power up to see if I can figure out if it is the case fan or hard drive causing the noise (since the case fan is small, I'm leaning toward a defective hard drive... my guess is that it is going into an automatic calibratrion mode [if drives still do that] and something is going bad and causing a LOT of noise)

Hoping I've caught things before the drive motor/bearings have gone completely out, I thought I'd see if anyone knows if Weeknees or CCS is able to clone the contents of a current drive to a new drive

I've sent emails to both, but since it's the weekend I figured I'd ask here about anyone else having experience with either one doing a drive clone operation... or if they know of any other good service that can clone a 250 drive to a new one and then put it back in the case (or even clone the drive to a new drive if I send just the drive)

I don't do Linux, and as far as I know, none of the Dos or Windoze disk tools I have will give me any way to replace my PC's two hard drives with old and new DTivo drives to completely copy one to the other

TIA John

[stevel]

You don't have to "do Linux" in order to do the copying, but if you want to stay in Windows, see http://mfslive.org/winmfs/ You can even use USB adapters for the hard disks if you have them.

[John T Smith]

I've looked at the mfstools instructions, and will look at winmfs as well... which looks, at first glance with mfscopy, to be exactly what I need... especially since I can put a usb adapter on the new drive and just copy

Thanks for the link

Added... according to http://www.mfslive.org/setupcomputer.htm I should be able to juse user ide/usb adapters to copy the going bad drive to a new drive just using usb, and not have to take my computer apart at all

I'm going to give that a try as soon as I can get to Best Buy and get another drive... and if I can't find a 250 to match, I saw a note that it is possible to copy to a larger drive, so if need be I'll buy a 300 or 320 drive

I'll report back after I've done all this... won't be until Sunday when I can get away from the JobJarQueen, and the copy will take several hours, so will be Monday or Tuesday before I get back here

Added2... cover off, power applied, fan seems good (and was not loose when I wiggled it before power) and drive did not make any initial noise

Internal temp was never high, so I'm just figuring something is going out in the drive, so still plan to buy a new one and copy tomorrow night

I doubt I'll be able to get a db25 "quiet" drive, so will just get a regular drive available at Best Buy

Added3... doesn't seem that will work

I connected my IDE/USB adapter to the old drive I upgraded, connected it to my computer... and WinMFS won't "see" it at all

Looks like I'm going to have to send my drive away to have it cloned for me

Added4
Was going to send drive to have it cloned, but wife said (when I mentioned "someday" building a bare bones computer to have IDE connections available to do my own cloning when our other aging (5+ years old) DTivos die) that I should just go ahead and do that NOW to find out if it works, before any of the other aging DTivos die, and only pay for cloning if I can't get WinMFS to work with a different configuration

So... that's what I'm going to do... already making up a list of what I need to buy, and will report back in 2-3 weeks once I've got all the hardware in place and then run WinMFS using IDE connections for the cloning process