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Reverting back to single drive
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Posted by: tammark

I am having a reboot (Tivo goes into powering up mode) problem. I thought it might be the hard drive so I upgraded to a WD 80GB drive (master) and used the original 40GB Tivo HD as slave. Upgrade went well - thanks Hinsdael for your great guide.

However, reboots continued. As PhredC did, I performed a delete everything. Went through guided setup. Still having reboots - every 5-10 minutes (some reboots occur before first reboot completes). I would like to remove the original Tivo HD from the equation. I looked on MFS Tools 2.0 but could not find info on how to just use the new 80GB HD by reverting back to a single drive. Could someone please advise on how to do this or point me to the right spot? Any other ideas on this reboot issue would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Robert S

You need to make a compressed backup. Compressed backups include only the partitions from the original TiVo A drive, reversing any upgrades.

You can then restore this to your new drive and expand it to fill it with recordings.

The instructions for doing this are in Hinsdale.

Posted by: tammark

Robert - Thanks for your reply. I am a newbie to alot of the terminology regarding upgrades so I may be asking some dumb questions. I made a backup image before upgrading. Can I just copy this image back to my new 80GB drive and do the mfsadd command? Do I then just leave my original TiVo HD out of the box? Thanks in advance for your help.

Also, could my reboots have to do with a bug in the OS? If so, can new OS be downloaded?

Posted by: remster

could it be the power supply flaking out or being overloaded or a lose power cable?

Posted by: Robert S

Yes, your original backup will be fine.

The TiVo software does have a few quirks, but nothing like what you describe. You should be getting uptimes of at least several months from your TiVo.