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Botched Drive Upgrade??
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Posted by: highlycaffeinatd

Hi all-

Hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I botched a drive upgrade on my Series 1 this weekend and now I'm trying to recover. Here's what I did:
- bought a 160GB drive and connected it to my PC
- BIOS recognized the drive as 137GB (that was fine with me)
- ran BlessTiVo from a boot disk and that apparently went fine
- pulled the drive out of the PC, reset the jumper to make it the slave, and plugged it into TiVo
- powered up TiVo - no joy, continuous reboots
- pulled both drives, plugged them into the PC as master and slave
- BIOS sees the 160GB drive as 32GB - turns out the jumper setting marked SL is slave with capacity limited to 32GB
- remove the jumper, now the BIOS sees the drive as 137GB
- plug both drives back into the TiVo - still no joy

Now I have the green "severe error" screen and a continuous cycle of reboots. Is there anything I can do to recover?

Thanks
David

Posted by: StanSimmons

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...20&pagenumber=7

Posted by: tac25

What happens if you just plug the A drive back in and try to boot? I don't remember how the bless command works, but it doesn't sound like you did anything to the A drive, just checked its size in the bios.

If you ended up fiddling with the image, and you didn't back it up first (which it looks like you didn't) then you will need a new image. For that try the link above or you can purchase the instant cake CD from PTV and use that. On other alternative is to make a back up copy from another TiVo of the exact same model (i.e. a friends, the one in the bedroom, etc) and restore it to your TiVo.

Also, you are a lot better off using the Hinsdale Guide Instruction and MFS Tools to add your new drive. However, that is water under the bridge now.

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/

Posted by: Robert S

The third post of the Fixes thread above contains a solution to your GSOD problem. It's very painful compared to running BlessTiVo, but perhaps less painful than trying to find a backup.

Posted by: highlycaffeinatd

The short story: I restored from another image and am now back in business.

The longer story:
- tried going back to the single A drive - still GSOD
- tried another boot disk with a startup script - ran this with both A & B drives attached - still GSOD
- pulled the drives again to find that I somehow managed to wipe out the partition tables on both the original A drive and the new B drive
- used mfstools to restore from another image and add the B drive - worked like a charm

looks like i learned my lesson on what tools to use. thanks for everyone's help!

-David