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Posted by: ken2

Hello,
I just purchased a Philips Hdr212 series I stand alone tivo. It came with no HD and I don't want to puchase one that is already setup.. I have a WD100eb 10gig HD to test. I looked through the whole site but cannot find a way to set the HD up so I can see if my Tivo works. Most of all the explanation is based on having a Drive A and copying to a new drive (of course since everyone is upgrading from their old HD unit) but What if you are starting from scratch? what steps/boot disk do I need?
what I did so far:
I did create a boot disk from weaknees.com which was called BlessTiVo
The boot did reckognize the 10gig drive and I did as instructed entering BlessTiVo /dev/hdb which did everything the instruction said. I placed it into the tivo unit and the screen says " your recorder is starting up please wait a moment..." and it just stays in that screen forever.
So being stupid I created couple of boot disks from this site tivo boot 3 on floppy and mfstools2 boot cd and now I'm stuck. Is there any hope for me?

any help in this matter is appreciated,
ken

Posted by: Robert S

You can only create an A drive from a backup made from another A drive.

A backup can not be restored to a drive smaller than the A drive it was made from.

The smallest drive shipped with a TiVo was 15Gb.

Posted by: ken2

Ok I understand that so using a 10gig is out of the question being that 15gig was the smallest that came with the OEM tivo's. So what do you suggest I go about this? I have several Hard drives, 15gig 7200, 41gig, and a 60gig but you're saying that I can't even create a start up drive
because I don't have an OEM drive A to copy from. So what happens if a tivo goes dead due to a bad hard drive and no backup was done? the user has to purchase a new drive set up from an authorized tivo repair/dealer?
thanks for your quick reply and help!
ken