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Hi. I just purchased an instant cake for my tivo. I am upgrading it from 40 hours to 140 hours with a 120gb maxtor qick view hard drive that I bought from weaknees. Everything was going great. It was a blank drive, and I used instant cake, and it seemed to work. After I installed it, I did a clear/delete. Now, every few hours my tivo freezes! I tried a new cable and I tried totally erasing the drive with killdisk and trying again and I still have the same problem. Please help! :confused:
Sounds like a bad hard drive. Did you run diagnostics on it before installing InstantCake? If not, then you should download the free utilities from Maxtor and run advanced diagnostics on the drive, at a minimum.
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
Ok, thanks, I will try that. It seems wierd that it could be a bad drive, because I bought it brand new from weaknees.com. http://www.weaknees.com/quickview_drives.php.
Jacobhdds said:
Ok, thanks, I will try that. It seems wierd that it could be a bad drive, because I bought it brand new from weaknees.com. http://www.weaknees.com/quickview_drives.php.
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
I tested the drive with powermax and it came up with no errors. I am trying a burn-in test, it sais that it will take several hours to complete. Weaknees will not take the drive back, they say that it somes with a full warrenty from maxtor. To return the drive, you need to have an error number from power max.
I called maxtor and they gave me a RMA number and they will ship me a new drive, even without the powermax error code. I think that this should fix the problem.
Just to make sure that this is a good image could somebody please give me the md5 or sha1 sum of the tcd540xxx iso. Thanks.
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justinr said:
For what it's worth, I tried InstantCake on not 1 or 2, but 3 brand new Maxtor Diamondmax 100G (actually 120G though) 7200 RPM hard drives and my TCD230040 acted up (picture distortion, random screen freezes, noticeably long delays to the remote control, etc) with EVERY single drive. Maxtor drives have done well for me in other upgrades, but not this time with InstantCake. I'm going to try a different brand when I have the chance. I believe others have had Maxtor drives work with InstantCake, but I'm 0-for-3 with the 100G (120G actual) drives. Hope you have better luck than I did.
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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