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Posted by GMAN on 09/26/06 19:04
In article <45191a42.221828171@news-server.houston.rr.com>, spam@uce.gov wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:15:08 +1200, "J Brockley"
><jbrockley@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>But I guess one possible issue is that a HDD recorder has no scandisk or way
>>of mapping out bad sectors so even a minor failure could failure. Looking
>>inside my Panasonic looks like a standard Samsung drive while my first
>>recorder has a Quantum drive.
>
>Won't the factory provide a utility to clean up their hard disks by
>taking the disk out of the DVDR and putting it in a Windows computer.
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Many unix based os's like that used in a TIVO will get corrupted if the disk
is removed from a tivo, placed in a windows XP machine and booted into
windows. XP writes a small amount of data to all HD's it see's within the OS
and this will sure a sh!t corrupt the OS.
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