Skipmeister
10-24-2008, 08:57 AM
I have a TiVo HD that I just set up last weekend and I decided to try to upgrade the puny hard drive contained within to a 1TB and also add a 1TB external. I did my homework and it looked pretty easy, so I decided to try last night. That's where the fun started.
WinMFS was hanging when I tried to copy from the original drive to the new drive. Not just saying "Not Responding", but when I was looking at the I/O Reads and Writes, nothing was happening except for repeated read attempts. This occurred at the same point in the several times I tried it. I did more research, decided it was probably bad sectors, so I made an MFSLive boot CD and copied using dd_repair. I went to sleep, and awoke to find a total of roughly 250kb worth of bad sectors, but the copy went through.
I rebooted back to Windows to run WinMFS and it crashed when I went to msfadd. After that I couldn't get WinMFS to select the drive even after repeated reboots.
I booted up with MFSLive and checked the partitions with pdisk. It looked like WinMFS added additional partitions so I decided to throw it in the TiVo to see if it would work.
I got the powering up screen, then it just displayed a plain gray screen. I'm thinking my best bet would be to just kill all the partitions on that drive and start from scratch, then just use mfsadd from the MFSLive boot disk rather than muck around with WinMFS.
Does that sound like a good plan? Is there a utility to delete partitions on the MSFLive boot disk? Are there any other suggestions?
WinMFS was hanging when I tried to copy from the original drive to the new drive. Not just saying "Not Responding", but when I was looking at the I/O Reads and Writes, nothing was happening except for repeated read attempts. This occurred at the same point in the several times I tried it. I did more research, decided it was probably bad sectors, so I made an MFSLive boot CD and copied using dd_repair. I went to sleep, and awoke to find a total of roughly 250kb worth of bad sectors, but the copy went through.
I rebooted back to Windows to run WinMFS and it crashed when I went to msfadd. After that I couldn't get WinMFS to select the drive even after repeated reboots.
I booted up with MFSLive and checked the partitions with pdisk. It looked like WinMFS added additional partitions so I decided to throw it in the TiVo to see if it would work.
I got the powering up screen, then it just displayed a plain gray screen. I'm thinking my best bet would be to just kill all the partitions on that drive and start from scratch, then just use mfsadd from the MFSLive boot disk rather than muck around with WinMFS.
Does that sound like a good plan? Is there a utility to delete partitions on the MSFLive boot disk? Are there any other suggestions?