(1) Does anyone know how to contact the main developer for RTVPatch? Or if you're watching this forum, would you please reply or PM me?
(2) I don't know if this is an OK place to be looking for support for RTVPatch, but I've tried posting on the SourceForge Support forum for RTVPatch, and haven't gotten any response yet. Here's my problem:
I have a 4320 that has a problem with one (or both) of the two 160 Gb disks. I have been sent a replacement 4320 from Replay, and now I want to transfer all my shows from the old Replay to the new one. Unfortunately, I have a lot of shows! The Replay shows only about 50 hours (at lowest quality) left. So I have data on BOTH disks. Even if I blow off shows until I have less than 160 hours, I'm assuming that programs recorded on the second disk will not get reshuffled onto the first disk.
Replay suggested using RTVPatch to do the data transfer, but I'm not sure if it will work, for a number of reasons. So, my questions are:
(1) Given that everything else is set up right, can I use RTVPatch to transfer the data from master(old) to master(new), and slave(old) to slave(new)? At one point, their documentation says that RTVPatch will NOT work with "second" drives, but I'm not sure if that applies in this situation, or if it has perhaps been fixed in newer releases. If so, could somebody describe this process in detail (i.e. what are the tricks, jumper settings, etc. to make it work?)
(2) This will sound very newbie, but... I am assuming I'll have to use the XP version of RTVPatch in order to accommodate the 160 Gb drives. I have a laptop available with XP installed, but like all other computers sold today, they don't provide an XP install/boot CD! Can I create a "bootable floppy" or "bootable CD" from the XP operating system? (You don't have to go through every detail, just let me know how this works, IF it works, and maybe point me in the right direction.)
(3) Anybody got any BETTER ideas as to how to accomplish this transfer I have in mind? It seems like the transfer facility would have to be "aware" of the file system used on the Replay disks, since even a "bit-for-bit" copy would have to be aware of bad sectors on the "destination" disk, and account for sector placement accordingly.
Thanks,
George
(2) I don't know if this is an OK place to be looking for support for RTVPatch, but I've tried posting on the SourceForge Support forum for RTVPatch, and haven't gotten any response yet. Here's my problem:
I have a 4320 that has a problem with one (or both) of the two 160 Gb disks. I have been sent a replacement 4320 from Replay, and now I want to transfer all my shows from the old Replay to the new one. Unfortunately, I have a lot of shows! The Replay shows only about 50 hours (at lowest quality) left. So I have data on BOTH disks. Even if I blow off shows until I have less than 160 hours, I'm assuming that programs recorded on the second disk will not get reshuffled onto the first disk.
Replay suggested using RTVPatch to do the data transfer, but I'm not sure if it will work, for a number of reasons. So, my questions are:
(1) Given that everything else is set up right, can I use RTVPatch to transfer the data from master(old) to master(new), and slave(old) to slave(new)? At one point, their documentation says that RTVPatch will NOT work with "second" drives, but I'm not sure if that applies in this situation, or if it has perhaps been fixed in newer releases. If so, could somebody describe this process in detail (i.e. what are the tricks, jumper settings, etc. to make it work?)
(2) This will sound very newbie, but... I am assuming I'll have to use the XP version of RTVPatch in order to accommodate the 160 Gb drives. I have a laptop available with XP installed, but like all other computers sold today, they don't provide an XP install/boot CD! Can I create a "bootable floppy" or "bootable CD" from the XP operating system? (You don't have to go through every detail, just let me know how this works, IF it works, and maybe point me in the right direction.)
(3) Anybody got any BETTER ideas as to how to accomplish this transfer I have in mind? It seems like the transfer facility would have to be "aware" of the file system used on the Replay disks, since even a "bit-for-bit" copy would have to be aware of bad sectors on the "destination" disk, and account for sector placement accordingly.
Thanks,
George