Hello,
I've used Tivo for many years, but this is my first time posting.
I have a lifetime HD Tivo (TCD658000) that went in to a reboot cycle with the green screen (several hours to repair). After a few minutes, it would reboot, and be in that cycle.
I contacted Tivo Tech Support, and they told me it was the Hard Drive, that it was basically running chkdsk. Being so old, it's no longer repairable.
I took out the HD, stuck it in a USB enclosure I had, and am now running the 8-hour long Western Digital 'Extended Test'. (Yes, I know that USB is relatively slow, but it was easy.)
Assuming that the Extended Test passes, is it worthwhile to try finding an image and MFSTools, and to reformat the HD and stick it back in? (Or to pay ~$40 to get InstantCake from DvrUpgrade). This is only a good idea if the file system got corrupted, and I don't know how often that happens.
Or do I need to do an exhaustive test to prove that the HD is good (Western Digital destructive write test?)
Or is it almost certainly a hardware problem, and I should just save my time buy a new HD?
At this point it's kind of tempting to buy a new Roamio OTA, but I haven't yet written off the older model. :)
(I did have a Philips 20-hour many years ago that I did the disk-image-clone trick to upgrade to something like a 120 GB drive. I don't even remember the names of the tools I used. Wow, that was a long time ago! :)
Thanks in advice for your thoughts/opinions!
-martin
I've used Tivo for many years, but this is my first time posting.
I have a lifetime HD Tivo (TCD658000) that went in to a reboot cycle with the green screen (several hours to repair). After a few minutes, it would reboot, and be in that cycle.
I contacted Tivo Tech Support, and they told me it was the Hard Drive, that it was basically running chkdsk. Being so old, it's no longer repairable.
I took out the HD, stuck it in a USB enclosure I had, and am now running the 8-hour long Western Digital 'Extended Test'. (Yes, I know that USB is relatively slow, but it was easy.)
Assuming that the Extended Test passes, is it worthwhile to try finding an image and MFSTools, and to reformat the HD and stick it back in? (Or to pay ~$40 to get InstantCake from DvrUpgrade). This is only a good idea if the file system got corrupted, and I don't know how often that happens.
Or do I need to do an exhaustive test to prove that the HD is good (Western Digital destructive write test?)
Or is it almost certainly a hardware problem, and I should just save my time buy a new HD?
At this point it's kind of tempting to buy a new Roamio OTA, but I haven't yet written off the older model. :)
(I did have a Philips 20-hour many years ago that I did the disk-image-clone trick to upgrade to something like a 120 GB drive. I don't even remember the names of the tools I used. Wow, that was a long time ago! :)
Thanks in advice for your thoughts/opinions!
-martin
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