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I have a 40 hour, Series 2 (240040) that I upgraded with a 2nd drive (120 gb WD) right after purchasing it in July '04.
Over the past couple of weeks the unit has begun pausing/stuttering/freezing during recorded playback and 'live' viewing.
I suspected one or both of the drives might be going bad, so I tried running SpinRite against them. I gave up on SpinRite when after running it on drive A for 2 days it was only 20% complete. SpinRite did report that it had recovered some bad sectors, so I hoped the problem was solved. I hooked it back up, but the problem was still there.
At this point I decided to replace drive A, so I tried backing up with Hindsdale Option #2, and the backup failed:
What are my options now?
I still have the original, single drive backup from '04 burnt on a cd. Can I use that as a starting point for recovery? I have tons of unopened hard drives of varying sizes (120 - 300) in the attic. Can I 'expand' a backup from a 40gb drive onto a 300 gb drive?
Thanks,
Woody
Over the past couple of weeks the unit has begun pausing/stuttering/freezing during recorded playback and 'live' viewing.
I suspected one or both of the drives might be going bad, so I tried running SpinRite against them. I gave up on SpinRite when after running it on drive A for 2 days it was only 20% complete. SpinRite did report that it had recovered some bad sectors, so I hoped the problem was solved. I hooked it back up, but the problem was still there.
At this point I decided to replace drive A, so I tried backing up with Hindsdale Option #2, and the backup failed:
Code:
/# mkdir /mnt/dos
/# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/dos
/# mfsbackup -f 9999 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb2: Success
/dev/hdb3: illegal seek
mfs_load_volume_header: Total sectors (79358976) mismatch with volume header (313798656)
mfs_load_volume_header: Loading anyway
mfs_load_zone_map: Primary zone map corrupt, loading backup.
mfs_load_zone_map: Secondary zone map corrupt, giving up.
mfs_load_zone_map: Zone map checksum error!
mfsbackup: Backup failed to startup. Make sure you specified the right devices and the devices are not 'locked'
I still have the original, single drive backup from '04 burnt on a cd. Can I use that as a starting point for recovery? I have tons of unopened hard drives of varying sizes (120 - 300) in the attic. Can I 'expand' a backup from a 40gb drive onto a 300 gb drive?
Thanks,
Woody