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MFSTools: Figured out my mistake-might want to add to ReadMe
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Posted by: richost

I added an 80GB drive to my 14hr standalone well over a year ago. Recently after moving (and dropping) my tivo, it bagan to stutter/freeze. I decided to replace the drives.
As the 80GB plus original 15GB met my needs, I went out and purchased a new 120GB drive with the intention to use just the one new drive. I used MFSTools to backup the A & B drives and restore to the 120GB drive. I then tested the restore (as stated in step 8). My Tivo kept rebooting. I couldn't use the tivobutton to get out of the loop (as suggested) as I don't have a tivo button on my remote. Seems my 1year old used it as a teething toy on two seperate remotes (I use the back arrow on the disk instead to get to the menus)
I thought that my backup was bad and I was out of luck. Turned out, I needed to follow one of the various step 10 options first. I did step 10F (mfsadd), as I didn't mind loosing my stored shows. This step just changed the image from 15hr (original) to 100+ for the 120GB drive. Walla...it works now
I am not sure if this is a special case as I had a single drive Tivo...upgraded to dual drive...and now back to single drive. But I figured I would post my experience for all to see and maybe add to the 'database' of fixes

Posted by: Pictor Guy

You mean http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hin...-to/index9.html
Upgrade config #6 in step 10? This worked like a charm when I did my single drive upgraded to dual and back to single. Or was there something else you did?

Posted by: richost

Yes, it is config 6.

However, previously in step 9 it said to test the backup. For some reason I could not get the backup to work until after I did the mfsAdd command.

Just passing on an experience