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Undo upgrade?
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Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

An upgrade went bad, going from a 14 gig A drive to a 120 gig A drive, with a 60 gig B drive staying in. My question is, can I remarry the B drive to the original A drive so I can start over without losing my recordings?

Posted by: Otto

If you did anything to the B drive, like married it to the 120, then you've already lost your recordings.

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

Well, I married it to the 120 using MSTools, but the result did not boot.

So at this point, what are my options? I have the original A drive, the new A drive that doesn't work, and the original B drive, now "married" to the new A drive. I followed the instructions in the Hinsdale howto, but the new A drive won't boot.

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

Do I have any options [as the stench of desperation grows]? Losing the recordings would be bad; losing the wishlists would make the TiVo virtually useless to me. But the only thing I can think of at this point is blowing away everything and starting over from scratch, which would make junking the TiVo a relatively attractive option.

Posted by: Robert S

Have you tried booting with the original drive set? If not, try to take an MFS Tools backup of the original drive set NOW, if it succeeds, you've saved your wishlists.

I'm thinking that if the TiVo didn't boot, the marriage won't have taken effect, so your original drive set should work.

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

No, the original drive set gave me a green screen reboot cycle.

The marriage seems to have worked; MFS reported success and something like 130 new hours.

Posted by: Robert S

Did you try taking a backup of the original drive set? MFS tools only backs up the original partitions, so assuming the problem is with the new partitions, the backup should work. If you can get a good backup off either the new or old drive sets, you should be able to save your wishlists.

Does the new set green screen? Does it have a 64Mb swap file? If the answer to both those is 'yes', you might want to try them emergency swap rescue as a last-ditch effort.

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

The new set does nothing whatsoever...just the TiVo welcome screen forever.

One thing that, in retrospect, interests me...MFS never asked about the swap file size. Wasn't it supposed to?

Posted by: Robert S

You never said how you did the upgrade - I don't think you could have increased swap anyway, but I had to ask.

Your last ditch options to save your wishlists look like this: Try to backup the new drive set. If that appears to work, restore to the 120 and see what happens. If that fails, try and backup the old drive set and restore that to the 120. If that fails, I'm out of ideas.

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

I tried backing up the new set and restoring to another drive I had sitting around. The backup seemed to work, but the restored drive didn't boot. I'll try the old set next, but this isn't looking good...

I did the upgrade by DDing the 14 gig drive to the 120, then expanding and marrying it to the 60 using MFS tools.

[20 minutes later] ...and with the old drive set, it wouldn't even do the backup. Corrupt file system, or something like that.

I assume this means I'm hosed?