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You can yell at me for not reading all the instructions *first*, later...
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Posted by: PageStGuy

Over confident newbie here, although usually, fairly competent in most situations!

Recently I started reading through all the instructions for upgrade because I figured an upgrade was very wise, very soon since Tivo was having intermittent stuttering problems. Eventually they became "stuck" problems and Tivo just died. SO, I figured I'd replace the a drive asap rather than later and add a b drive in the process. I got as far as being ready to boot to the cd and make a backup of my a drive when I realized I didn't have the version of my software. I hooked Tivo back up, powered up and turned on the TV.

Gray screen, gray screen... Green screen and big nasty severe error message.

I searched for "dead Tivo" and "green screen" and have read far, far too many threads... and still don't know the answer.

My question is, should I give it the 24 hours it requests, or is the drive near enough to dead that it won't matter? In which case, I won't be able to get a backup of my original a, so what to do then? (I was thinking to dd copy instead of backup and restore, but what if the disk is unreadable whatsoever?)

Thanks... :confused:

Posted by: Want1394

Well, the obvious. Did you check and double check you returned the drive properly to the Tivo (power, IDE cable to drive and mother board, jumpers, etc.)

Posted by: PageStGuy

Tivo is still sick, 24+ hours later. Yes, I hooked the hard drive up properly, but I think my worst fear is true: the disk crashed before I had a chance to upgrade it, much less back it up. At this point, sounds like sending it our for repair is the only solution?

Posted by: StanSimmons

If you can find a same brand/model TiVo to copy the image from, you could put that image on a new drive and be back up and running. PM me if you can't find any images locally.