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    Does B drive need formatting if A drive reset?

    Hey, I'm in the midst of attempting to use dd_rescue to recover the image of a failing A drive on my HR10-250. I first backed up the image of my replacement A drive from WeaKnees, so if this fails, I can reset it to a fresh system.

    My (so far) hypothetical question is this: If I have to reset the A drive to a fresh system, does the B drive require any attention? Does it need formatting or blessing?

    Or will the new A drive do that automatically when it discovers the additional drive?

    Mojo
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  • #2
    I bet the answer was right there in a nearby thread. After starting up the fresh system do a "clear and delete everything" from the menu.

    Did I guess right?

    Mojo

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    • #3
      Maybe, but maybe not. If the A drive is fresh, then you do need to reformat the B drive. When you restore the image to the new A drive, just include the B drive in the restore string.
      Been here a long time . . .

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      • #4
        Eek, does that mean I need to have the new A and B drives connected simultaneously? I'm short of IDE ports.

        Mojo

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        • #5
          You could copy to the A, then mfsadd the B in a separate boot.
          Been here a long time . . .

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          • #6
            Well I think my ordeal is now successfully handled.

            Indeed the attempt to rescue the A drive was not successful. 128K of bad sectors were in the middle of the old disk, and a dd_rescue to a new drive would not boot. So the bad sectors must have been somewhere fairly critical -- which stands to reason if they are the cause of my system constantly failing.

            My desktop PC is a Shuttle box with two SATA connectors, and one IDE connector, one plug of which is dedicated to the CD drive, leaving one to attach an additional disk. I used a big USB drive for temporary storage, and that worked out fine. But it doubled the time required to do a dd_rescue, naturally -- store the image to the big drive, then write it to the new one. Too bad the effort was futile.

            I used the current mfslive image (1.3b) instead of the WeaKnees image because it appeared that the WeaKnees mfstools boot image doesn't include USB drivers.

            So to restore a clean boot image, I went to Fry's to pick up a PCI IDE card. The card was recognized just fine by the mfslive boot image, and I could get to both hard disks and my backup file on the USB drive. If I'd done that before, I would have saved half the time I spent doing a futile dd_rescue to a temporary file.

            I restored to the two 300GB disks, returned them to the HR10-250, and voila -- it put me through the guided set-up, and appears to have all of the storage available for recordings.

            Tonight I'll start adding back my old season passes.

            No mourning for the lost episodes and movies. Maybe even a little relief that the big backlog is gone now.

            Thanks for your guidance along the way!

            Best regards,
            Mojo
            Morris Jones
            Monrovia, CA
            http://www.whiteoaks.com

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            • #7
              Right about the USB drivers - they aren't on our CD.

              Glad you got it running!
              Been here a long time . . .

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