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Tivo restore gone bad
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Posted by: htopley

I have reconstructed my actions and reattempted Tive restore and installation. I cannot get Tivo to work after an aborted attempt to install a Airnet card

1 During the attempted Airnet installation I screwed the pooch somehow.

2 I think that I shut down (power switch instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del)

3 I could not get the Airnet software installed to the tivo drive.

4 So I took it all out (2 drive ST60 series 1, Tivo A=Quantum 40GB, Tivo B=WD 120GB, and reinstalled into Tivo and YES I was careful and no loose wires or incorrect jumpers or incorrect cables. I reconnected my Tivo and and plugged in the power cable (last after all other connections) The green power switch came on and I could hear a drive seeking, but blank TV screen and no other Tivo buttons worked or illuminated.

5 I removed drives and have attempted to restore drive image to the Tivo drive A (Quantum 40GB) I have also tried to restore image (tivo.bak) to the two drive config.

6 So here is the quandrie? I boot the MFSTools 2.0 disk and it reports
- hde (this is the C drive on my PC) 4 GB, it has a Tivo Fat partition with a dos subdir. I have the tivo backup (tivo.bak) on the C drive in root and \dos
- hdf (this is the Tivo B on Primary Slave cable) 122 GB
- hdg (Tivo A on secondary master) 40GB and hdh (Sony CD drive)

7 I then enter this
mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdf dev/hdg

I then get this /mnt/dos/tivo.bak no such file or directory

8 Since I am not a Linux expert or even novice, I am just copying the commands and adapting the drive locations to fit my machine. I need help getting Tivo back to normal. Yes Tivo was running like a charm for months in the 2 drive upgraded mode.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.