Hey community,
I have a TiVo Premiere Elite (Ordered on launch day of the Elite) which was working fine but I had reason to believe that, after 5.5 trouble-free years, the drive was starting to get "tired" (Audio drop-outs and video breakups that were becoming more and more common).
Yesterday, using information from this forum and other bits and pieces from the internet, I successfully cloned the stock (WD20EURS) drive onto a new drive (WD20EURX).
I used ddrescue so I didn't have to do any other TiVo magic or tinkering.
Now that I have this WD20EURS drive out of the TiVo and no other plans for it -- what should I do with it before I scrap it?
1-Can I / should I extract an "image" off of it for future safekeeping, lest the hard drive I just installed fails without warning?
2-If I am imaging the drive, can I just image the "OS" -- I don't necessarily need to keep the ~1 Tb worth of shows on that drive with an image that I'm just keeping around for disaster recovery.
3-But speaking of those shows -- can I pull any shows off of the drive? I have used kmttg before but I imagine the "drive direct connected" method is a whole lot quicker!
There is a ton of info out there already but I'm having a tough time knowing what info specifically addresses my questions above. Please feel free to point me towards existing info.
Thanks!!
Reference:
success with WD20EURX-57T0FY0 man date 21 Jun 2015 in TCD652160
I have a TiVo Premiere Elite (Ordered on launch day of the Elite) which was working fine but I had reason to believe that, after 5.5 trouble-free years, the drive was starting to get "tired" (Audio drop-outs and video breakups that were becoming more and more common).
Yesterday, using information from this forum and other bits and pieces from the internet, I successfully cloned the stock (WD20EURS) drive onto a new drive (WD20EURX).
I used ddrescue so I didn't have to do any other TiVo magic or tinkering.
Now that I have this WD20EURS drive out of the TiVo and no other plans for it -- what should I do with it before I scrap it?
1-Can I / should I extract an "image" off of it for future safekeeping, lest the hard drive I just installed fails without warning?
2-If I am imaging the drive, can I just image the "OS" -- I don't necessarily need to keep the ~1 Tb worth of shows on that drive with an image that I'm just keeping around for disaster recovery.
3-But speaking of those shows -- can I pull any shows off of the drive? I have used kmttg before but I imagine the "drive direct connected" method is a whole lot quicker!
There is a ton of info out there already but I'm having a tough time knowing what info specifically addresses my questions above. Please feel free to point me towards existing info.
Thanks!!
Reference:
success with WD20EURX-57T0FY0 man date 21 Jun 2015 in TCD652160
