I have an original (never been cracked open) Hughes DirecTV Tivo unit (model HDVR2). I've had it for years now, and the hard drive just went out on me. I can hear the hard drive clicking, so I know it's the drive that's bad. I'm new to this whole "opening your Tivo box and messing around with the hard drive" stuff. However, I am a PC tech and have a ton of experience with recovering data from bad hard drives. So, my questions is, can I open the box, pull out the drive and slave it to a WinXP PC to see if I can recover any of the data on the drive? If so, can I burn the data onto DVDs so that I can still watch the shows that I had on there before the crash? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the LONG post.