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TivoNet install: went badly...
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Posted by: n6161h

I bought the TivoNet adapter earlier this year and finally tried to install it tonight And upgrade with a 2nd HD at the same time.

Walked though the HD backup OK, installed the TivoNet adapter and a NIC, restored the back up toe new drive for verificaiton, installed the new drive, powered it all up and ... no boot.

Stuck on the "your recorder is starting up" screen. Went back to the original drive, same problem.

realized I forgot to plug the power cable into the TivoNet card.

How hosed am I? Have I trashed my system? Or is something wrong with the HD (new and old) Anyone else done this and lived to tell about it?

button it all up and ship it to Philips? Yes I saved the anit tamper sitcker, but it's over a year old and way out of warrenty...

Or should I just beat my head on the wall and remind myself what an idiot I am?

-markr

Posted by: n6161h

Update:
I found a buddy who was brave enough to let me swap drives with his Tivo and it's the drive, not the motherboard.

So now the question is what went wrong in the update?
Why did the main disk, which should never have been written to, get corrupted?
What should I look for to un-corrupt it? It looks OK under Linux, the partitions and the data are ther etc.
I could restore it from an image (could some one PM me with the FTP site?) but I don't want to the lose all my shows and set-up.
I'm assuming the back-up I made from this disk is also corrupted. Especially since I restored it to my upgrade drive and it won't boot either.

Any one with a suggestion on how I can recover?

Thanks,

Posted by: aikiman440

When I was doing my two upgrades over the weekend I received the same message about the recorder starting up. After letting it sit for about ten minutes and seeing the same message when I came back, I was puzzled. It took me a couple of minutes, but I figured it out. I hadn't switched my new upgraded A drive back to Master before putting back into my Tivo. Hope that helps.

Posted by: n6161h

Yeah, I had the drive jumpers wrong initially. I got that fixed, but it's still not booting.

The PC crashed during the back up and I'm betting it corrupted something on the source HD.

If I can't figure out what got corrupted, I'm going to try cloing my good drive onto the dead one. I'd just like to save

I wish there was "write protect" tab for HDs :-)