So...I've entered into the Clear & Delete Everything Zone. This will take "an hour", my ass!!
jayron said:
Wonder what the longest anyone has run a continuous "clear and delete everything" that resulted in a successful rebuild.
Me too. This morning it was still going into hour 39.
Here's my story:
I was getting reboots and lockups. This is with the stock 250GB + Seagate 160GB.
I took the drives out and checked them with Spinrite. Stock had zero errors. The Seagate didn't need to recover any sectors, but it had 66 million some ECC errors. I assumed (?) this was the bad drive and the cause of my problems.
So I replaced it with a WD 250GB, and put the Tivo back together. It was better, but it still would sometimes spontaneously reboot.
So I tried the C&DE in hopes of killing whatever gremlin is inside my Tivo.
Does going into the 40th hour mean something is wrong with my hard drives? Maybe the stock drive has a problem Spinrite didn't detect?
Thanks for any suggestions,
Matt