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Tivo Upgrade Problem...
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Posted by: dj420420

I have a Phillips DirecTivo unit, DSR6000. Stock Quantum 40 gig Hard Drive. And am attempting to add a 100 gig Western Digital. It was previously in my PC with Win2k. Whenever I think I have it blessed and put it in my Tivo my Record time does not increase. Here is what I have done.

- ran blesstivo, set jumper to slave, and put it on the secondary chain of my tivo.

- formated as fat rather then NTFS, blessed, replaced.

- put tivo image on it, blessed replaced.

- many combinations of the above listed including different jumper settings, different IDE cables, different file systems, even tried different downloads of bless tivo.

I have tons of documentation which I have followed to the T. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time.

D.J.

Posted by: Backhack

quote:
It was previously in my PC with Win2k.

Win 2000 writes something to one of the partitions that messes up the TiVo upgrade. You may have to do a low level format in a win 98 system to get it fresh, if you boot into win 2000 it will write the problem to the disk again.

Posted by: dj420420

I have tried a low level format tonight and it just doesn't work. I have been working on this "simple" upgrade for 10+ hours now and it is driving me crazy. I have read through 3 sets of documentation on this several times. I have 6 different hard drives I've tried ranging from 40 to 120 gigs and no matter what my tivo will not see them. it seems everyone else simply got a hard drive, ran blesstivo, stuck it in and were ready to go. i don't understand what is happening here. can someone please help me with this insanity. it shouldn't be this tough, right? thanks for your time and help.

Posted by: DaveLessnau

It looks like with one of your attempts you tried setting it up as the single A drive in the TiVo. Did you run TiVoMad on it? What are you booting from? In all cases, when you get your PC booted (via Boot CD?), does the reported drive size match the actual drive size?

Posted by: Want1394

Here's a new suggestion. :)

Read carefully only one set of instructions - the Hinsdale's How-to ...

Read carefully and follow each step - they only use the MFSTools programs.

I assume your basic system still works - you havn't screwed up your original A drive.

There was no need at all to do a low level format on the drive you are adding.

Using the Hinsdale approach, it really does work every time AFAIK.

Posted by: jsharper

Are you making sure the original A drive in the TiVo is jumpered to master? Its possible it was set to CS, which let it work by itself, but not as master with slave...

Posted by: dj420420

I have tried using it with extreme 2.5 and the modified 2.6 boot CD's. I tried with MadTivo and without. It always recognizes the right size. I have also read the Hinsdale How-to like 20 times. Does anyone know which file gets written to on the A drive when you add a blessed tivo B drive into the system?

thanks

Posted by: tivoupgrade

dj - i'm thinking dave's earlier post may be your problem. can you confirm that when you restore your 'extreme' image the A drive, and then run TiVoMad, that you are answering the question about having two drives, correctly? You want to tell it that you'll have a two drive system, and if its not connected to the PC when you are running TiVoMad, answer the next question with a NO. Don't boot up your TiVo until you have blessed the 2nd drive and have also installed that in the TiVo unit. of course, the correct jumper settings issue is important, too. make sure that the jumper on the A drive is ALL the way to the left, and that your 2nd drive is set for the slave, explicity - not cable select...

hope that helps!
lou

Posted by: dj420420

Thank you very much for the input Lou I was successful last night and now have a 126 hour DirecTivo.

Thanks,
D.J.