July 5, 2005 12:19 PM

If you boot the PTVnet62 CD, you can use it in conjunction with InstantCake (6.2).

As for the problem you had, it sounds like the software on your unit may have been corrupt and/or the backup you made was not complete or contained some errors that prevented PTVnet from working properly.

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

July 5, 2005 2:33 PM

grizzly said:

I understand that you can use instant cake within PTVupgrade CD, however that didn't work. I got an error about not being able to find the instantcake cd, even though I rebooted Instant cake standalone and it did work.

I've successfully upgraded via earlier versions of pTVupgrade with Instantcake, so I have the procedure down pretty well.


This unit was straight off the shelf, upgraded on first phone call from DTV. If there was a problem with the unit then I would expect that the tivo unit wouldn't work or that when I copied it to the new drive then it wouldn't have copied using mfstools, which it did just fine.

Coming from an IT backround, I might suspect that DTV has done something new that might be causing problems and I'm mentioning it since when I did a search other folks were getting the "unable to determine software version" or there abouts...

Kevin

The error you saw when attempting to determine the software version is different than what the few people who have attempted to install on their original drives have seen. Again, I suspect your software may somehow be corrupt for that very reason. DirecTV hasn't done anything which has resulted in any problems with the software.

As for the not finding the InstantCake CD issue, you may not have specified your IDE device properly, as that can result in that error.

Please don't confuse the handful of posts regarding people having problems with the installation/use of these tools as a widespread problem; most who use the tools have no problems at all and never post here; the software works just fine in the majority of cases, and the differences in PC hardware are the #1 cause of issues.

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

July 9, 2005 8:58 AM

gbillings said:

Although I tried to upgrade by copying my drive, it sounds like the same problem. Don't you hate it when software people blame the hardware? They haven't replied to threads I posted three days ago, but have replied to others left since. Sounds like they're going to ignore my issue so I'll dispute the charge, get a credit, and find an other way to upgrade my drive. :mad:
Good luck, grizz...

Not sure why you are expecting a reply that would be exactly the same as other replies to the same questions/observations that have already been made to other similar posts.

Best advice is to take the position that the software does work, and try to figure out what mistakes you may be making, or what is different in your environment that separates you from all the people who are successfully using the product. Looking for ways to blame someone else for the problem is not going to bring you closer to completing your upgrade.

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread