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ATT unit Just won't BOOT!
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Posted by: Quasemoto

Hello..

I fianlly got two of my ATT Tivos up with 120 GIG add ons, I have not tried the forth but one of the first ones i messed with will not boot.. I thought mabe i screwed up the drive and posibly did an incorect backup, but the two units i'm running are doing so off a 40 GIG WD and a 120 GIG WD neither are using the original Maxtor i put them away as the backups.. I then took a brand new never setup drive and backed it up..the new ly copied drive would not boot in the Tivo in question no add on drive or anything just the one 40 gig so i tried the original 40 gig it did not boot either so i changed the cable ..nothing.. whats the deal did i fry the unit..any input would be greatly apreciated..

Thanks
Chris

Posted by: ADent

Do a search. Seems somehow some of the AT&T units (but actually DTiVo and Series1 also) just won't boot, even if you put the original untouched drive back in.

I think people have done it by getting a new image. Can you grab an image from one of the other working units? Can you switch sets of drives from a working unit to a non-working unit.

Someone speculated that the drive gets unlocked by the backup tools and relocked by TiVo somehow instead of unlocked? Any better theories?

Please report back if something works.

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Last posibility is it just happened to die (you did run them for a few days, right?) when you worked on or it you static fried it (I fried my old PC drive I was using to hold TiVo backups the other day)

Posted by: mohanram

This may be the problem if you have Windows

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...&threadid=46610

I had this problem with my series 2 TiVo. I was sure I never booted into Windows. But I also remember that one point of time it booted up without the linux CD in the tray and I switched it off. Maybe things went wrong up then.

So the solutions may be to restore the original drive with a backup from someone