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confused and getting Tivo Depressed
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Posted by: digiactive

Last weekend I opened up my Tivo, I pulled out the drives followed the Hillsdale info, added a drive my linux box said I added 85 hours put everything back into the tivo and I get the boot screen, then the almost there grey screen then it loops. My biggest mistake is not backup my A drive :-/ dumb dumb dumb... I'm an early adopter so I have the phillips HDR112, was adding a maxtor 80 drive... I've downloaded an image for my system and burned to a cd... thought I might be better off replacing the A drive wiht the 80 instead of keeping them both, so now how can I restore from the cd? Or anyone have another suggestion? I miss my tivo and my shows... can't remember how to program the vcr lol.

Posted by: Jorossian

that sucks

I was close to skipping the backup step too, but after a moment's hesitation it seemed pretty obvious that Mr. Hinsdale was pretty much beating me over the head with the concept of "MAKE A BACKUP FIRST".

Then Robert S. Beat me over the head with an even stronger concept of "KEEP OUR OLD A DRIVE FOR A MONTH BEFORE ADDING IT"

It seemed pretty clear that caution at each step was the way to go - especially since I didn't want to lose any of the football games I had saved on my drive at any cost.

Make sure to read the entire Hinsdales and follow it to the letter and you should be fine next go around.

Posted by: digiactive

little late for that, and I understand, when I printed out the pages I skimmed through them to the part that says upgrading one drive so I missed all the first back up the drive... but anyway I need help now that I screwed up.

Posted by: stormsweeper

You9 need to get your image as one file - many are broken up into several smaller compressed files. Then you'd use the restore command as if that was the backup file you made in the first step.

Posted by: Robert S

Although you've burned the image to a CD, the Hinsdale instructions expect the file to be saved on your hard drive as c:\tivo.bak so it's probably easiest to copy the file to that location just before you restore it.

Use MFS Tools 2.0 and New Hinsdale.

Restore the image to your 80Gb drive so you can increase swap, which will be handy if you upgrade further later.