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    Rescuing my HR10-250

    I'm struggling to avoid downgrading my HR10-250 to DirecTV's HR20, and the old box is ready for the intensive care unit.

    It's unable to play very long without going through a stuttering phase and eventually rebooting.

    I have the original 250MB drive plus a WeaKnees 300MB add-on that have been working well for a year.

    I spent a weekend last month doing a scan of both drives with Spinrite, which ran successfully at level 2, finding only one bad sector on the original 250 mb drive.

    My thought it that the problem is still (one of) the disk drives. And I'm considering strategies for reviving the unit, and maybe even retrieving the data. I'd like a sanity check.

    My thought right now is to buy a pair of equivalent disks from WeaKnees and do an image copy from the old disks to the new ones.

    Suggestions or alternative strategies?

    Mojo
    Morris Jones
    Monrovia, CA
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    That makes good sense. You do likely have a drive problem. The issue can be that you end up copying a bad version of the OS over from one set of drives to the next.

    If you can part with the recordings, definitely the best strategy in this case is to just get a new "replace" kit and let the old data go.
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      I guess that's the risk. If I can come up with enough spare storage disk, maybe the thing to do is to image the replacement disks first, then give a try to copying the old ones onto the new ones. That way I can restore to the replacement kit if the copy fails.

      Thanks for the feedback! Maybe I should place an order.

      Mojo

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      • #4
        Sounds like a good move. Make sure you're comfortable with the copy procedures before you wipe your new kit:

        http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com
        Been here a long time . . .

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        • #5
          Thanks Michael. I think rather than trash and replace both drives, I'm going to replace the main 250 gb system drive first. That's the oldest, had one bad sector in Spinrite, and the most likely to be failing.

          Thanks for the link!

          Mojo

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          • #6
            You are on the money with keeping the 10. Just got the 20, sending it back. Oprah doesnt look any better in HD.

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