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Crash....Restore...Issues
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Posted by: JBisesi

I have an upgraded HDVR2 which had 2 upgraded drives (maxtor 120g and segate 160). The Maxtor drive (A-primary) has failed. So I went to my backup and restored it to the segate 160g drive. Put it back in and it worked with a couple of exceptions.

I now have transparent screens for "Now Playing" and other menus. I understand from some quick research that I needed to set a switch when making the back-up to keep the backgrounds. Do I need to get another image or can I add a backgound of my own?

Second problem is that the 160g drive only shows 35 hours which seems too low. I know it could access it's 137g limit before the upgrade in the old system. Could this be a jumper issue?

Posted by: Robert S

You need to get hold of a proper backup. There's no way I know of to repair an image that's missing those files.

With the drive size, you should have restored with -x. Take the drive back to the PC and run mfsadd to expand the image. See Hinsdale (just below where you stopped reading, I would guess :))

Posted by: JBisesi

Thanks.

Can someone help with a HDVR2 image, please?

Posted by: JBisesi

Ok. Restored again from my current backup with -xi and it showed up as 147 hours in linux and 120 hours when I put it in the tivo and powered it up. I'm not sure why they are different, maybe the 160g dirve and the 137g limit plays a factor.

Still transparent menus. Kinda getting used to them now, but still looking for an image.

Posted by: Robert S

It's not Linux, but MFS Tools, which estimates the time. It estimates based on the Stand Alone TiVo's 'Basic' data rate (1.2 Houre/Gb), whereas DTiVoes guess their capacity based on .9 Hours/Gb (of course the actual data rate depends on what DTV transmit and you'll actually get rather less than .9 Hr/Gb in practise).