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Please help! Forgot to umount A drive!
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Posted by: Carleen

What happens if you forget to issue the 'umount' command?

I'm upgrading (still) a Hughes DirecTivo, using the existing A drive & adding a 120gb Maxtor. I backed-up successfully last night, and testing the newly purchased drive in the Tivo.

Then I brought it back to my PC and blessed it. I then took the A & B drives out of my PC, and suddenly remember I didn't umount. For some reason, I thought I only needed to do that to B, so I put it back in, restarted the Boot CD, and umounted it.

Now I'm stuck at "Powering Up", and I realized I never umounted the original TiVo drive. Could that be why? How should I undo this clumsy mistake?

BTW, I've quadrupled-checked all cables & jumpers. I haven't had my TiVo for 24 hours now and I'm **DYING**!!!

Thanks,
Carleen

Posted by: Robert S

You don't umount the TiVo drive, you should umount the drive the backup is on, or you run a (small) risk of trashing your Windows drive.

Look at your cables and jumpers. Try booting the A drive without the B drive.

If that doesn't work come back and tell us what you did in more detail.

Posted by: Carleen

Thanks Robert. *sigh* I just can't make enough of a fool of myself in this forum, can I? It was a jumper problem. I'd been reading them upside all this time, just as Hinsdale said we might.

Despite how hard I've made this process for myself, this is truly the happiest day of my life!! 149 hours!! Woo-hoooooo!!!:D

Posted by: Robert S

The harder it is, the more satisfying when it works!

Now you can look down on all those people with 'Unmodified' in their sigs :)