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Need Help with Original Drive Backup
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Posted by: dabregster

Hi, I am new to TiVo but have been reading for weeks before I even open my box up. I just received my new 120 GB hard drive in the mail today and finally figured it was time to upgrade. I have a lot of computer experience and feel stupid for what I did (Read on).

My Tive has been working fine (HDVR2). I had dowloded Sleepers CD to take me through the steps of doind a Monte.

My computer is an XP running NTFS so I located an older 3 GB HD that was fat 32 and erased to use as my primary drive.

I hooked everything up as needed but the scripts stated my drive was not a Fat32 so I reset my XP drive as my master, Fat32 as slave and rebooted. The idiotic thing I did was not to remove my TiVo drive.

Everything seemed to be fine so I hooked everything back up. I went through the scripts again and is seemed to be working, until it went to recognize my TiVO drive. It says it is not a valid drive..oh sh&#!

I powered down and placed my drive back in the TiVo, I now only get a welcome message.

My question, do you know if windows did something to the drive and can I undo it?

Is there any way I can get an image of 3.1.0-01-2-151 to just use on the new drive. I know they are hard to come by, i have been reading everyone asking. If someone could just get in touch with me I would appreciate it. I do not want to have to shell out the money for a new drive with the image on it.

Thanks,

Kevin

Posted by: Robert S

The partition signature error is normal and simply a result of byteswapping and it quite normal for a Series 1 TiVo when you use the MFS Tools 2.0 boot disk.

You can rebuild your boot block using MakeTiVoBootable.

I'm having a similar conversation in the Help Centre (which is totally the wrong place, I know...).

Posted by: dabregster

Robert, thanks for the help, worked like a charm. Not only is my original working, but my 120 GB drive is also working.

Thanks again,

Kevin