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upgrading hdvr2 and having a lil problem
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Posted by: dayoungn

im following hinsdale word for word and when i go to type in "mfsbackup -f 9999 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc"

its doesnt give me a progress report, rather it gives me a message saying that a drive is read - only (thats not the exact message). that was my first attempt to do the upgrade and i am gonna start again from the top and see if it worx. if anyone know why i got that error i would greatly appreciate your input. thanx alot.

Posted by: Robert S

Are you using a Windows XP machine?

Posted by: dayoungn

short answer yes
long answer is the hard drive worx, but never "fully installed" windows xp on the hd. some kinda **** with the cd rom was dorking up. but when i stuck the hard drive in my other computer i explored the folders and it had a c:/windows folders, and i was able to use the hd (transfer files from it and such) so im assuming yes :-)

Posted by: Robert S

Windows is not the issue. NTFS is the issue. You need a FAT formatted partition to write the backup file to.

If you had actually followed Hinsdale 'word for word' you might have followed the words that said "see note at end for Windows NT/2000/XP users".

Posted by: dayoungn

word for word until that last part:D about windows xp and ntfs :o ok i think that might be the prob. im gonna go check it out. thanx for the input.

Posted by: Robert S

Hinsdale recommends repartitioning your C: drive or finding an old hard drive. It might be easier to put a 2Gb FAT partition on your upgrade drive temporarily to write the backup to.