Looking for some advice here...

I've got a Series 2 140hr Tivo that is almost 2 years old. Here lately we've been getting a lot of frozen screens and garbled pictures. We also just got the message that we only had a few days of program information left. We see now that for some reason it has been more than a week since we got a good programming update. When I try to force a manual connection to the Tivo service, it eventually gives us the "Error S03" message. Testing the phone connection works fine.

So, after reading a bit on the Tivo Forum and here, I decided my first step would be to restart the Tivo. Well, it never came back after that. It would sit at the "Powering up..." screen for ever. I also noticed some strange clicking noises that sounded like those you never want your hard drive to make. I'm guessing the drive is going bad.

Now, here's my question...

I want to upgrade the drive without losing all my saved shows. What route should I take? I hope the shows can be copied off to a new drive. I'm a techie, so the manual process doesn't scare me if that's what it is gonna take.

Should I just purchase the upgrade from WK and let them handle it for me?

Should I just buy a new Tivo unit?

Somebody please steer me in the right direction.

Thanks!

Andy