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What are my options?
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Posted by: ajr

Well, I was hoping I wouldn't have had to write this letter...but I would like to know if I have any options beside throwing my year or so old Sony SR2000 unit in the garbage...

I decided to finally do the hard drive upgrade procedure... Unfortunately, while attempting to follow some nice clean instructions, it appears I switched hdb and hdc and did a "dd" between them, as the instructions explained. I too late realized I had the Tivo drive where the new empty drive should have been and eventually got a "no more space on drive" or something like that... So, I overwrote everything on my Tivo drive. I confirmed this by plugged it back into the unit - it just whirrrss. And since I was going to merely replace the original drive with the new drive, I made no backup (stupid, stupid, stupid...).

What are my options, if any?

BTW: My email is aaronjrich@yahoo.com if you have any information. Thanks.

- Aaron

Posted by: Cypher

Hmmm... that completely sux...

I'm not familiar with the SR2000, but perhaps you could try to find a new/used SR2000 on ebay/half.com/etc., buy it, backup the drive, restore to your original system and then sell one of the units. I'm not sure if this is legal or not. It may violate tivo's licensing agreement...

The other option is for someone to send you an image from their SR2000 system, but that is probably illegal.

Not sure what else to suggest...

Jeff

Posted by: tjdmobile

I think it's your lucky day...if it's legal....

In the underground forum, they had a post asking for backup images. Someone posted an FTP site where you can get some images. I don't remember what it was, maybe you can search the forums by FTP or something. It's there though.

Good luck, I feel for you.

TJD

Posted by: Worf

ajr: You probably didn't read the Hinsdale HOWTO - it's instructions are a bit more foolproof...

Posted by: hancocks

Aaron,

My guess is: not supported, perhaps not legal, etc. etc., but this is one of those "great to have a friend with a backup or a similar TiVo" times. Additionally, the remarks about images which may be FTP'd is probably correct -- try to find something that's NOT on the Web. Don't despair -- except for the part about the TiVo being down for a while (until you fix, and you will). Additionally, WRT so-called morality, if: 1) you bought a lifetime subscription, isn't it reasonable that you should have a working unit? If you are a monthly-service person, then TiVo will continue to recognize revenue from you with a nice healthy fixed TiVo...(place additional rationalizations here).

- Stu

Posted by: ajr

Thanks for all that helped. My tivo is up and working again without too much trouble. And now I have a Tivo with 4 times the storage - nice. Thanks again...

Aaron