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[Frogbutt]

Iv intalled 2.5X and the KRavEN upgrade an now when I goto into (pick programs to record --> search by title --> all programs) i will get a reboot. Anyone knwo whats up or how to fix it?

[Perplexer]

I'd guess you had a bad sector on the hard drive, in the area that gets accessed when you select the search function.

Try an MFSTools backup/restore; this may write the data to a different area of the hard drive. It's worked in the past on one system I installed. If you want to get more involved, remove the drive, run a drive repair tool on it before restoring your backup image.

[Wooly]

I agree with your diagnosis, Doctor, but disagree on the methodology of treatment. My prescription is as follows:

1. Get yourself a Beer
2. do the MFS Backup to another HD
3. Drink Beer
4. Drink another Beer (it takes a while if you have a lot of shows)
5. Go to store
6. Get yourself a NEW hd (I like Maxtor, but to each their own)
7. Go down the street from computer store, buy more beer
8. Open another beer. Drink.
9. Restore Image to the NEW HD
10. Get phone, contact a booty call, have her come over and have service you while you're watching your new Tivo.

Once the HD starts going bad, do NOT waste time on it - you're asking for more heartache later. It's probably still under warranty, so when the HD arrives from RMA (you'll get a new one, they hardly ever try to fix them) you add it to your Tivo and you've doubled your space and avoided a problem, PLUS had some Beer and got serviced.

That's what I call making the best of a bad situation!!!

[Perplexer]

Ahh yes, I forgot to mention the "beer and women" solution. :p

Most HDDs will have bad areas on the disk; the hard drive manufacturers won't tell you this, though - their drives are always "perfect." For someone who wants to get up and running right away without buying extra equipment, the MFSTools backup and restore should help. Run SpinRite (excellent program) on the drive, and you're golden.

And I disagree; the manufacturer will almost never send you a new drive for RMA; they'll send you a refurb. I've had to return a few drives in my time, and almost every one got replaced with a refurb.

I stay away from Western Digital. While some people have been lucky, I've had the most problems with them.

[Wooly]

See, if you don't include the "beer and women" thing people will call you a geek...I'm still paying for therapy because of that, so I am under doctor's orders to include it in all posts!

As for the refurbs...Maybe I'm just getting lucky, but I only deal with Maxtor (had too many bad experiences with old Seagate drives - can anyone remember the 80 meg SCSI's that were junk? - and I HATE WD), and of the...oh, 5 drives we've sent back RMA in the past year we've gotten back ones with new labels and recent born-on dates that all have 3 year warranties. 5 drives may scare you, but you must also take into consideration the fact that we service about 150 computers a year, so I don't consider 3% failure rate bad at all. Then again, maybe they were refurbs that they stuck a new label on, but they sure looked new to me.

Are you saying that you've had refurbs coming back to you from Maxtor? If that's the case, are you buying retail drives or OEM white-box drives (OEM's only usually have a 1 year warranty)? Curious minds wanna know!


Originally posted by Perplexer
Ahh yes, I forgot to mention the "beer and women" solution. :p

Most HDDs will have bad areas on the disk; the hard drive manufacturers won't tell you this, though - their drives are always "perfect." For someone who wants to get up and running right away without buying extra equipment, the MFSTools backup and restore should help. Run SpinRite (excellent program) on the drive, and you're golden.

And I disagree; the manufacturer will almost never send you a new drive for RMA; they'll send you a refurb. I've had to return a few drives in my time, and almost every one got replaced with a refurb.

I stay away from Western Digital. While some people have been lucky, I've had the most problems with them.

[Frogbutt]

Reinstalled and it was working ok but now it does the same shit except it makes a NASTY scratchy type noise right before it reboots. So is that definably the hd? wanna be sure before i spend the cash to get a new one.


Woot getting the green screen saying a sever error has occured and a constant powering up loop :) My new hd will be here soon cant wait.