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Stuck on "Welcome... Powering Up" screen
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Posted by: killme

First off, I tried running Powermax on the drives and it did find errors on "A" drive and it fixed them. There were no errors on "B" drive.

The problem started after a power loss. My other TiVo did not get affected, but this one did. I was wondering if I could place my "A" and "B" drives from the problematic TiVo and put it in the working TiVo. I don't want to lose all my recordings and I want to still be able to record my shows while I get this fixed.

I'm thinking something else is wrong besides the hard drive. I do have the original hard drive and image, which I can put back in for testing purposes.

Posted by: drewba

I'd try putting in the original drive for testing, that will tell you a lot. I've had a system stuck at "Welcome..." a couple of times. Once was a bad hard drive and once was a bad hard drive cable.

Posted by: killme

I got the original drive in there and it works. I guess that corruption that happened on drive "A" is what did it. I guess I can run MFS Tools on the "A" and "B" drives again to get them working again, but I was wondering if there may be a way to save my recordings and etc. What choices do I have?

Posted by: ashutoshsm

Ahh - I'm in the same (similar) position with an 80 hour upgraded with a 120GB B disk, that won't go past the bootup screen.

I've already plugged it (the pair of drives mounted on a weaknees kit) to a PC and booted the MFStools CD - it shows everything is fine and can chck partitions etc.

What do I do next? I've checked for loose connections, I've powered the hard drives using my PCs power suplpy and I've rechecked all connections (visbile stuff0 that I reasonably could.

I have a saved image from my 80 hour disk (its bare - sub 1GB) - if I remember correctly, I cannot install (mfs-restore) that onto a spare smaller disk, or can I? Just trying to conserve disk contents until I confirm that it isn't the TiVo hardware (board, power suply etc etc) that has failed.

Is buying a new 80+ GB drive my only option for mfsrestore? Can I grab any friend's TiVo Series 2 disc (anyone in the DC metro area wanna volunteer - pretty please?) I would prefer to save my existing programs on the 80+120 A-B drive combo, until I have confirmed one of the drives is bad.

Posted by: killme

I'm using two 160GB drives, but I don't have another pair to back them up to. I'm gonna order some from Staples today (and pricematch next week when they are on sale). I will attempt to copy the contents from both drives. I haven't found instructions on how to do that, yet.

I remember reading a message about doing a restore and then copying things such as recordings and settings to the restore so as much as possible can be recovered onto an already working drive. Hopefully I can get my stuff back. I have to remember to write down my Season Passes, Wishlists, etc. so I can enter them again if need be. If I could figure out to make regular backups of recordings as well I'd be in business.

Anyway, any help someone can offer on backing up and restoring would be of some great help. I just have to wait for the new drives to come.

Posted by: Freyracing

I got home from work and assume we'd had a power outage. Stuck on the "Welcome" screen, just like you guys. Oh, my Gosh!!! The TIVO / Direct TV guy said that if you keep it hooked up to phone line...over a 24 hour period, the "software updates, blah, blah," might fix it....but he's never heard of it happening.

He said the "modem" is having a problem booting up. Is this a load of crap of what?

Somebody out there has had to have figured this out and found a fix. I've got about 90 hours of 144 hours saved and quite a bit of stuff we haven't even watched yet!

This is the second time this baby has crashed. I wrote down all the season passes when we fixed the unit last time, but haven't "added" to it in the interim. Oh well.

Seeing's how the phone line (if you keep it hooked up) dials out automatically at a predetermined time, why can't we do a "daily back up" at the same time? Anybody up for designing that one?

Help!:(

Posted by: killme

I found out I need to use the dd command. I found some info on it in the Hinsdale How-to TiVo upgrade OPTION #3. I guess I just run the command:

dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k

I'm guessing it will copy the errors that are on the "A" drive and the backup won't work in the TiVo. What to do?

Posted by: killme

I tried using dd, but it still doesn't work. I tried using MFSBACKUP & MFSRESTORE, but got an error about the volume header.
The error says:

/dev/hdc10: Success
mfs_load_volume_header: mfsvol_read_data: Input/output error
Segmentation fault.

I heard about a method where you start fresh with a working TiVo image and then use "dd" to copy as much as possible. Can't remember how to do that, though.

Posted by: killme

I was wondering if there is some way to copy part of a TiVo image to another TiVo drive, just the settings and/or recordings?