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Do I Have To Divorce Drives Before I Try To Restore Again?
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Posted by: fastandbad

Mr. Hinsdale Sir--

I upgraded 3 Tivo's yesterday. Two upgrades went perfectly, but a third upgrade on a standalone single-drive Sony Tivo, which seemed to be fine after an initial test, has gone into the infinite reboot mentioned in Section #8 of the Hinsdale How-To.

Since we have checked the jumper configuration and it seems to be correct, I am trying to figure out the next step, and have the following question:

1) Since the original A drive is now "married" to the blessed B-drive, and the system is having problems, does it make sense to:

a) "Restore" the A drive back-up to the expanded B drive again using MFS Tools 1.1, check that that works again, then bless the B drive again (which would over-write this restore)?

(I'm not sure what good this would do, as the system is still using the original A drive anyway, and all that's happening is we're eventually re-Blessing the previously blessed new, larger B drive.)

b) If so, does the B drive have to be "divorced" from the original Tivo A drive before we try this restore?

or

c) Run MAXTOR tools to check for bad sectors on the B drive?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks for all the time and effort you've put into your How To--it really is very helpful.

Posted by: StanSimmons

Restoring the image to the A drive will effectively divource the drives. You will need to re-Bless the B drive so that the A drive will re-marry it.

Download the latest diag tools from your drive manufacturer website and test the drive(s).