Upgrade from TWO DRIVE HDVR3 to Single drive

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So, I have a five year old HDVR2/3 DTV tivo. I had upgraded to add a second drive about four - five years ago, and it worked fine till yesterday when the power UPS went out, and for some reason it is on POWERING UP now forever.

When I take out the second upgraded drive, the added storage, the first drive gets to Almost There, but never makes it anywhere.

Not really sure if the drives are gone, or A drive is gone, but am willing to try anything.

What is the best way to test the drives? Is the spinrite software the best? When hooking up to a computer, does it still have to be a FAT32 computer and not win 2k, or xp?

Is there a way to move to a LARGER HD, and get the recordings OFF these drives? What would be the software for doing that?

This seemed to be a solution not yet covered in the posts I have read in the past 10 hours.

 

floppy? floppy? who's got a floppy?



I'll see what maxtor has in the way of boot cd's for drive checking. I remembered after posting, of course, that if I put them in the 'puter and boot from a drive then Filesystem won't be affected. I'll checkout the mfslive stuff, looks like we've come quite a way since my last HDTIVO upgrade.

 

So, update

It looks like the A drive may be bad. The MAXTOR diagnostics seems to stop at 60-70% and not go any further. The B drive, the upgrade drive, appears fine, even with the LONG tests.

So, what is the best way to upgrade BOTH drives to a NEW single drive, or is it best to just upgrade the A drive that seems to be failing. This is the original TIVO drive?

Is the dd_repair program the best way to get the files off the A drive and write them to a new larger drive? What about adding the content from the B drive, of should I just continue with a TWO drive system.

thanks for pointers
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I should have tried that, I just went with a new image. I might still be able to do the spinrite on it.