Save Old programs on previous A drive, making it a B drive?!

[twell]

Here's the deal:
My 120GB HD on my D*TIVO Philips DSR6000 went into continuous power up loop – bad sign. Ran some tools and will now get GSOD for days. There are LOTS OF SAVED PROGRAMS on this drive.

Went and bought a Hughs SD-DVR80 and put an 160GB drive in it.

I want to put the old 120GB drive as a "Second B" drive, and hopefully still have all the save programs on it.

Can I just take this old drive and run the typical "Dylans bootdisk and BlessTivo" program?

Will this allow me the ability to view the saved programs?

I hope this is clear enough to understand. Any help would be appreciated!

Cheers, Twell

[PlainBill]

It's clear. It also doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.

DSR6000 uses byteswapping, SD-DVR40 doesn't.
GSOD indicates corruption in the MFS file system.

The good news is, you're thinking, not just wringing your hands.

Suggestion: Read this (http://dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?p=210753#post210753) thread.

PlainBill

[twell]

Hey PlainBill, Thanks for your quick reply - it seems like YOU give me the answers to all my posts (2).

Anyhow, you reference the "HD" (high def), but rather, my Hughes is the "SD-DRV80" (standard Def). Does that make a difference?

Anyhow, I thought as a last chance, I could just totally wipe the drive clean and use it.

Cheers, Twell

[PlainBill]

Hey PlainBill, Thanks for your quick reply - it seems like YOU give me the answers to all my posts (2).

Anyhow, you reference the "HD" (high def), but rather, my Hughes is the "SD-DRV80" (standard Def). Does that make a difference?

Anyhow, I thought as a last chance, I could just totally wipe the drive clean and use it.

Cheers, Twell

My mistake, I keep getting tangled up between HDVR2 and SD-DVR80. I knew you were talking about a standard definition system.

If you are going to reuse the drive, get the manufacturer's diagnostics and do a thorough surface analysis. Drives do get old and die.

PlainBill