>>succeded installing windows XP on it

That may be your exact problem. M$ OSs write things to partitions and boot sectors. You may need to drop it into a non-M$ box (Linux or maybe even an old DOS or 1 of the bootable CDs of various OSs) and wipe out the partition, then rewrite the MBR. I believe that's mentioned a few times, for both TiVo and things like XBox hacks. Never, ever let it touch a M$ OS... (at least the Windows OSs)

HTH! Hope it's accurate! (shooting from the hip here)
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supamanbk said:

On step 3 I get an error stating
Restore failed: unable to open destination device for writing
Cannot continue -- Processing aborted

I'm using a single 250gb maxtor drive to replace the 40gb on my tivo series 2. The hard drive is brand new, I know this drive works because I succeded installing windows XP on it. Pleeeeeease help!!!!

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houstonjp said:

Swaping cables won't do it. The problem is that I use a PCI ATA 133 card to access the 250Gig drive. The onboard controllers are ATA 100 and can't see the full capacity of the drive.

The PCI controller on the computer is basically an auxiliary controller not seen as a Primary or Secondary controller. Because of this, even if I disable the secondary controller in the BIOS, Instant Cake software doesn't see the drive (because it doesn't see it on the secondary controller), (not sure why not, I can see it under Linux as /dev/hdc), but that seems to be the way it is.

- Houston

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houstonjp said:

Well, I tried that and wound up with a drive baked with 147gig of recording time!

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houstonjp said:

Building for a Hughes SD-DVR40

I guess when I baked the 147Gig, that the "Auto Detect" hard hard drive was on. Unfortunately, with that particular computer ... I can't turn off the "Auto Detect" feature. A different computer that I have tried so far will not boot from CD unless the CD Drive is the master (RATS!!!).

I will try other computers in my posession to see if they will boot from a CD as a slave drive.

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houstonjp said:

Okay .... now I understand, but I am extremely dissapointed !!!!

Maybe you could say that it is my mistake, but I didn't read the release notes prior to purchasing this software. Now I can see that it doesn't contain LBA48 support.

I made the assumption that since Ptvupgrade was selling preconfigured drives that are obviously supporting LBA48 by nature of the sizes offered, that the software I bought and downloaded did too. It would have been nice to give that warning during the purchase phase.

Is there anything that I can do to make this work??? Or am I out of luck??

How about a refund??

Thanks,

- Houston

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yes, you've got it right:

243 HR Replacement Drive Kit
[Model Number:D2R-160160]
Price: $289.00
( In Stock )

Hours:
This Series2 DirecTiVo DVR replacement drive kit includes two 160GB drives and will yield the following recording capacity at variable quality:
Variable: 243.0

A little more time reading, and that should have been clear; you've not been misled here, only made some incorrect assumptions.

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houstonjp said:

..... just another note to self .... read everything on every inch of a company website before you decide to purchase anything .....


if not ... it is bound to bite you in the a$$. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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