I've got a TIVO harddrive that is crapping the bucket and am trying to see if I can salvage it without losing a couple shows that are on there. TIVO is run on top of a linux distro, so I figure if I can boot into a linux environment, I might be able to salvage it without too much trouble. anybody know of any good linux boot disks with hard drive utilities on them? hell, I'd even settle for a simple fsck if it would work...

[Edited on October 1, 2010 at 6:51 PM. Reason : ]

10/1/2010 6:46:14 PM

Knoppix
http://www.knoppix.net/get.php

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10/1/2010 7:11:51 PM

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10/1/2010 8:19:51 PM

uggg. looks like the problem is in the drive electronics. it keeps timing out like a little bitch. you think DD will be able to copy this thing over to an identical drive? what about ddrescue?

[Edited on October 2, 2010 at 12:05 AM. Reason : ]

10/2/2010 12:00:22 AM

Find an identical drive, and swap out the board on the bottom it.

10/4/2010 11:26:04 AM