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Died and Upgrading drives now
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Posted by: cornell

My B drive died so I decided to change some things around since I would have to do a restore no matter what. I now have a 120 GB drive and want to replace the A drive and have no B drive.

I have burned the Kazymyr's Boot-CD and added my "A" drive image to this CD. I have also made the TivoMad boot disk. After reading through all the documentation I have come up with the following steps. Please correct me if I am wrong on any of these:

1) Connect my 120GB A drive as the primary slave on my PC.
2) Boot off of the Kazymyr's Boot-CD
3) Run mfsrestore -s 127 -zpi /mnt/dos/hdr212.bak /dev/hdb
4) unmount -f -a -r
5) Boot off of the TivoMad Floppy
6) Ctrl+C at the questions prompt
7) Run mad/edit_bootparams hbd -i
8) Remove drive from PC
9) Set drive as primary master and plug into Tivo
10) Power up Tivo run through the guided setup

Thanks.

Posted by: Robert S

Firstly, you should be using MFS Tools 2.0, so go and get New Hinsdale and the MFS Tools 2 disk.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'I put the backup on the CD', but I'm not certain that Linux is multi-session aware, so you may not be able to find your backup. Some experimentation may be necessary. You should be able to read it if it's in the first session of the disk. Hinsdale expects it to be on a hard drive connected to primary master and called c:\tivo.bak

You didn't mount your disk! If it's on the CD, try mount /dev/hdd /mnt and then leave /dos out of the restore line.

If you use MFS Tools 2.0, use -xzpi instead of -zpi and skip the TiVoMad step.

There's only one 'N' in umount.

If the backup is reasonably current (2.0.1 or later) you don't need to do the bootparms thing.

Otherwise good.

Posted by: cornell

Thanks. I got it to mount correctly and everything was fine until the end.

Here is what I am getting:

Uncompressed backup size:816 megabytes
Restoring 816 of 816 (99.90%)
Cleaning up restore please wait a moment
Restore failed: Premature end of backup data

What could be causing this problem?

Thanks.

Posted by: Robert S

It seems to be saying that the end of the backup is missing. You'll have to download it again. Consider trying a different one - any HDR image is suitable.

Posted by: cornell

Ok. I searched around on the web and found one location with images. The site is so slow it is going to take days for me to get the imagine. Is there anywhere else you know of that I could obtain an image?

Thanks.