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Help in Dallas!!! TIVO Hack gone wrong
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Posted by: MightyThor

Hey, I was needing a little help on hacking a tivo
that I have now screwed up. Here is what I did so
far.

I bought a 14 hour tivo, took out the drive, and I'm
trying to replace it with 2 - 60 gig drives (5400
rpm)by Western Digital. I'm not sure if I can have
the WD as the A drive in the TIVO or not.

Well, I went through what I thought was going to
copy over the A drive. I then re-did the process with
the B drive in there so that I could do it in 1 step.
I think my original drive is locked, but I used a
utliity recommended to unlock it.

Anyway, I put the new drives in my Tivo and nothing
at all. I am not sure what I did wrong... other than
not making a backup of my original A drive http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif. I do
have a second Tivo that I can copy to get this
corrected if needed. What are the jumpers supposed
to be set to on the new drives? Slave, master? Any
suggestions?

Thanks,
Jason

Posted by: jimdan

When you unlock the drive, make sure you don't power cycle the computer...that will lock again. CTRL-ALT-DEL

Set the drives to be master on drive 1 and slave on drive 2
Set the BIOS to show "none" for all the drives.
Boot the Dylan disk
Look at the screen and note which drive has the partitions on it. If none do...you just blew the drive away.
Then follow the instructions to dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb cs=32..... or something to that effect.
if means input file of means output file cs=cluster size

Follow the instructions. I have a WD for both drives.
Run TiVoMad against the new A drive if it is bigger

It is best to have both drives on the secondary IDE channel. TiVoMad will not work against the primary drive.
dd will work against the drives in a primary IDE setting.

cheers.

Have fun

[This message has been edited by jimdan (edited 06-16-2001).]

Posted by: MightyThor

Thanks. I think I'm making progress now. I broke open the second TIVO and started over. The A drive is now copying to my first 60 gig drive. The only thing that I did not do was to set the BIOS to NONE because I didn't have the option. I did use the DLGCHK.EXE to unlock the drive though, and did a CTRL+ALT+DELETE afterwards. Is it essential to have NONE or all ZEROS in the bios? I know that it did not recognize the right size. I'm using the Dylan boot disk.

Thanks,
Jason

Posted by: ElectricLegs

I don't think you'll have to worry about the none or zero's part if it's copying correctly but you do need to have the bios see the correct drive size.(after it's unlocked)You might have to update the bios to fix this. After the copy's complete just put both drives on the secondary ide cable(Tivo copy as primary) and run the Tivomad bootdisk.

Posted by: MightyThor

All is good http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif. Thanks everyone for you help. The two threads that I followed were these:
http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum6/HTML/005496.html
http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum6/HTML/005551.html

They gave me exactly what I needed.... 148 hour TIVO!!!

Ok, 1 last question. I have 2 TIVOs. 1 is upgraded and the other is still the 14 hour. Also, the one drive is goofed up from the first time I tried this. I want to make a backup copy of the good drive onto the old one. What do I need to set the jumpers at to make this work? I assume I hook the good one up to Secondary Master and the bad one to Secondary Slave, and the use the Dylan boot disk to copy. Someone let me know if I just set them to Master and Slave like I think I should. It's my only good copy for the other TIVO so I don't want to goof it up. http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif.

Thanks,
Jason

[This message has been edited by MightyThor (edited 06-16-2001).]