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Baked the cake and very thing look great (screen shots, screen messages, etc...), but after installing the drive into the TIVO box, I'd get a quick powering up screen and then followed by a gray screen. Left it on this gray screen for about 15 min and then re-cycled the box (cut power and re-plugged it in), but the same thing happed - it hang on this gray screen. Waited for about 20 minutes this time and then aborted the upgrade (wife was getting pissed).
I have a TIVO 40 hr box that was purchase last xmass. It's a TCD540040 box. The drive that was baked was a single Maxtor 160Gig drive that was to replace the exiting 40Gig drive that came with the box.
Any suggestions?
:confused:
DVRupgrade
July 7, 2005 5:43 PM
teldfm1 said:
Baked the cake and very thing look great (screen shots, screen messages, etc...), but after installing the drive into the TIVO box, I'd get a quick powering up screen and then followed by a gray screen. Left it on this gray screen for about 15 min and then re-cycled the box (cut power and re-plugged it in), but the same thing happed - it hang on this gray screen. Waited for about 20 minutes this time and then aborted the upgrade (wife was getting pissed).
I have a TIVO 40 hr box that was purchase last xmass. It's a TCD540040 box. The drive that was baked was a single Maxtor 160Gig drive that was to replace the exiting 40Gig drive that came with the box.
Any suggestions?
:confused:
Sounds like something else may be wrong. I'd recommend you put your old drive in the unit and ensure everything works normally. Its possible that your cake didn't bake properly, but its also possible that there is something wrong with your TiVo - could be a loose cable (ensure you didn't accidentally dislodge one of the white ribbon cables in your unit) or possibly something worse - hopefully it is nothing serious.
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
DVRupgrade
July 7, 2005 11:40 PM
teldfm1 said:
After bailing on the IC conversion, I did replace the original 40Gig drive back into the unit and its backup and working fine (at least the last 24hrs), so I'd say the Tivo box with the original drive is working.
One other thing, prior to using IC, I had attempted to use MFStool to backup the 40Gig drive and restore that backup it to the 160Gig drive. Could not get PC I was using (A Compaq PC) to recognize the larger drive. It kept dropping the drive size to ~ 33Gigs. Not sure, but a possible BIOS restriction? So, prior to going to IC, I used the Maxtor MaxBlast3 utility to FAT32 format the 160Gig drive (wanted to ensure I had a clean drive after the failed MFStool exercised. This format successfully completed. Then I used this same PC to bake the cake. Again, the IC screens said that the process had completed successfully and I now had a ~178hr TIVO drive.
Do you think that either the drive format to FAT32 or the PC is the problem?
No, I don't think formatting the drive on the PC is the problem. But am wondering about the potential BIOS issues if your PC isn't recognizing the full size of your drive. You might want to try a different PC if you have one at your disposal.
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
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July 18, 2005 7:57 AM
I would shy away from FAT32 since that is a WIndows type of format.
Additionally you failed to mention what OS that Compaq runs on?
The signifigence here is the BIOS and what size drive it will allow.
For instance many Win95-98 computers were limited to a max hard drive size of around 35GB and later to as large as 125GB with some of the final BIOS upgrades for those Windows 98 computers.
Try this instead make a DOS boot disk, you will need a formated floppy for this, go to Start-My computer and right click on the floppy icon and select format.Select create a bootable disk with systems files.
When finished set it up in your BIOS to boot from the floppy. This will take you to a DOS prompt make sure you have C:// or what ever your hard drive is and type c; fdisk this will low level format your hard drive the only sure way to clean anything off of the drive.
Try again with another computer I would like the other poster in this thread suggested. Don't format with FAT or NTFS or you will have problems since they are not Linux compatible. I don't know about some of the newer Linux stuff but I would imagine the same to be true. I'm digging out my Linux books to get a handel on the command line
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