Quote Originally Posted by woz_331
Right, I'm giving that a go. It froze up again before at TiVo Central, and the menus continued to animate.
Dave is right, it's best using the drive makers program. Though some bad sectors wont mean a bad drive, TiVo wont map around them.

As an aside all the background videos are also streamed from the hard drive, so again anything serious was going on you should see problems.