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So, assuming that I can even get the bad drive to boot at all, will I be endangering any files by trying to copy the fids from drive 1 to drive 0?

no; you're okay... Look on the bright side, your old drive is probably under warranty from the manufacturer; you could always sell your original drive on ebay; 4gb drives are still fetching 75-100$ on there...

Good luck :-(
-mark

MK2: 36gb
Tivo: 90gb
CPU: 120gb
...I think drive manufacturers love me!

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