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Man did I screw up. Help needed badly!
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Posted by: Doright

Hey all,

Tried to upgrade a previously upgraded Directivo DSR6000.
I was replacing the original 40GB and the additonal 80 GB with a SINGLE 120GB drive. I decided to keep the 80GB as a B drive and I left my PC hard-drive hooked up. All of a sudeen it started clicking away like crazy and now seems completely shot.
So I take the new 120GB hard drive and load windows on it for my PC, thinking I can just put old A drive back in Tivo. Now Tivo is stuck on "powering up" screen with a fatal error message saying to leave it on for 3 hours. I had already married the new 120 Gig with the 80 gig drive and now have no back-up.
I'm completely lost as to what to do now. My wife is pissed because all her shows are gone.
Any suggestions?
Much appreciative!!

Tony

Posted by: bsnelson

I'm still not clear on what you've done - can you explain more fully?

Brad

Posted by: Doright

OK,
I was going to replace 40 gig A drive and 80 gig B drive with Single 120 Gig A. (I was going to do this before installaing Cache Card that I just purchased).
I then decided to keep 80 gig B and Add 120 Gig as NEW A.
I copied old A drive to new 120 Gig A but somehow left original PC drive hooked up. After copy, PC drive was clicking like crazy. Then, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to replace clicking PC drive with the 120 gig drive (I loaded windows on it - using it right now) and try to put tivo back to original. I think (but not sure) I had already run mfsadd and married the two drives.
Now I'm lost with no backup. I really don't care anymore about saving programs if I can just get Tivo back to normal. Then I may buy 160 gig drive and replace both.

Posted by: blindlemon

Your 40gb "A" drive won't work without your 80gb "B" drive. If you ran mfsadd on the new 120 and the old 80 then you have probably trashed the 80 as far as having it work with the original 40 is concerned.

If the error you're seeing is a GSOD (green screen of death) then there may be some hope. If not, then you probably need to find a backup image from somewhere.

Posted by: Doright

No it is not the GSOD.
I was afraid you may say that.
How does one go about finding a backup?

I would assume you just ask nicely.
Anyone - please!

Posted by: heyitscory

quote:

I would assume you just ask nicely.
Anyone - please! [/B]

Too bad tivo shut all the tivo image hosts down. Otherwise life would be easy.

If anyone tells you where to find one, PM me. It's a 40 gig DirectTV 704.

If we were in the same town, I'd buy you a beer... we could sure both use one.

Posted by: jacobhdds

try taking the 40 gb drive and making it the master drive (with the jumper) it must be for the tivo to boot up correctly