Well, this has not been fun today. I purchased and downloaded both the InstantCake SIRS 4040-3.1.1e-01-2-381.iso and the PTVNet311e.iso and burned each to separate CD's. I hooked the CDROM to Primary Slave and the new 160GB Maxtor HD to Secondary Master. Nothing else was hooked to the PC. I booted on the PTVNet CD and followed the instructions as shown on your support pages. It asked if I was configuring a new drive with InstantCake and I replied yes and it proceeded. After it directed me to place the InstantCake CD into the CDROM, it proceeded to restore the image etc. All looked normal. At the end it asked me if I wanted to Expand the drive (yes) and add a 127MB Swap File (yes) and then it asked me if I wanted to install Telnet (yes), FTP (yes) and TIVOtoGO (yes). I elected to keep upgrades enabled (so D* would upgrade it to 6.2 eventually) but Disable Phone calls. Then it proceeded to the end and told me to take the drive out of the PC and install it into the TIVO unit. I did that and then it just stays on "Welcome Powering Up..." forever (1+ hrs). I did the entire process three times and got the same results three times. After I reinstalled the original drive (WD 80GB), it said "Welcome Powering up..." for 2 minutes and then proceeded to boot and load to normal DirecTV operations.

The DirecTV DVR unit was installed one day ago by DirecTV and the Maxtor 160gb HD is brand new drive I took out of a sealed retail box. It tested fine with Maxblast 4 after I took it out of the box. The only thing i don't know about is during the InstantCake/PTVNet process, it was asking about setting the Flags but right above it there were a couple of lines of code displayed that basically ended with "No such flags found". It went by so fast I did not get to copy the full line of code. Basically, I think there is a problem in the ISO but I have no way of reading it. Here is the file structure of the ISOs:

PTVNet CD: AutoRun.inf, PTStart.exe, ISOLINUX (8 files 10.6MB) Bootable CD (2 files 64.0KB)

InstantCake CD: Autorun.inf, PTstart.exe, License.txt, GPL.txt, _IMAGES (2 files 310MB), _LIVE (2 files 448KB), ISOLINUX (8 files 25.8MB), Bootable CD (2 files 64.0KB).

Now what should I do?

I am not smart enough to give up on these projects. So, I started from scratch by reformatting the HD and reinstalling everything. The drive was jumpered correctly, by the way. This time it booted and came online. The only problem was that it said there is a hardware failure and I had to "Clear and Delete Everything" although I thought there was a setting in the software to prevent that in this version. But, after an hour or so, it worked just in time for my wife to come into the bedroom and use it.