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I just purchased a 160 GB Western Digital hard drive and loaded the software onto it and it just hangs when I install it into my Tivo unit, even though I copied the most recent image from my existing hard drive onto it.
The most recent hard drive I have been using is a Seagate 250 GB. Note that I had no problem restoring an image to the 250 GB Seagate. TIVO recognized it’s size as 137 GB and anything beyond that is unused.
So, there should have been no problem with the 160 GB WD Hard Drive. It too was shown to be 137 GB.
Here is what I have: A Sony SVR2000 Series 1 standalone unit, utilizing 1-hard drive.
I have the old Tiger Mfs Tools v 1.1 on floppy. My burning the CD did not work for me, so I use the floppy.
My Tivo software version is 3.0 with a Lifetime subscription.
Here is my setup on my computer:
hda - Primary Master - c: drive of my computer
hdb - cd-rw drive
hdc - Secondary Master - I use this to copy most recent image onto my computer and then copy it back onto new hard drive
hdd - unused
I turn on my computer with the Tiger Mfs Tools floppy installed and wait for the # prompt.
I back up the image onto my computer using these commands & then unmount the hard drive:
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mfsbackup -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
umount -f -a -r
cntrl-alt-del, then turn off my computer, remove the hard drive & put the new one in
I then restore the most recent image onto the new hard drive using these commands:
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
When done, it says I have 147 hrs 816 MB uncompressed
Restore done!
It also says, adding pair /dev/hdc12-/dev/hdc13
Then, I umount -f -a -r & cntrl-alt-del to exit.
What I don't understand is why the new WD hard drive seems to hang in my Tivo. In the past when I also restored images to Maxtor hard drives, I had no problem. I also had no problem with the Seagate 250 GB.
It is that the Western Digital is incompatible?
I also noticed that my computer, after the restore was completed, said:
adding pair /dev/hdc12-/dev/hdc13
What does that mean?
The most recent hard drive I have been using is a Seagate 250 GB. Note that I had no problem restoring an image to the 250 GB Seagate. TIVO recognized it’s size as 137 GB and anything beyond that is unused.
So, there should have been no problem with the 160 GB WD Hard Drive. It too was shown to be 137 GB.
Here is what I have: A Sony SVR2000 Series 1 standalone unit, utilizing 1-hard drive.
I have the old Tiger Mfs Tools v 1.1 on floppy. My burning the CD did not work for me, so I use the floppy.
My Tivo software version is 3.0 with a Lifetime subscription.
Here is my setup on my computer:
hda - Primary Master - c: drive of my computer
hdb - cd-rw drive
hdc - Secondary Master - I use this to copy most recent image onto my computer and then copy it back onto new hard drive
hdd - unused
I turn on my computer with the Tiger Mfs Tools floppy installed and wait for the # prompt.
I back up the image onto my computer using these commands & then unmount the hard drive:
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mfsbackup -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
umount -f -a -r
cntrl-alt-del, then turn off my computer, remove the hard drive & put the new one in
I then restore the most recent image onto the new hard drive using these commands:
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
When done, it says I have 147 hrs 816 MB uncompressed
Restore done!
It also says, adding pair /dev/hdc12-/dev/hdc13
Then, I umount -f -a -r & cntrl-alt-del to exit.
What I don't understand is why the new WD hard drive seems to hang in my Tivo. In the past when I also restored images to Maxtor hard drives, I had no problem. I also had no problem with the Seagate 250 GB.
It is that the Western Digital is incompatible?
I also noticed that my computer, after the restore was completed, said:
adding pair /dev/hdc12-/dev/hdc13
What does that mean?
and about $110 on 2x 160GB drives. 
Bought the instantcake s/w and wasted much time on these drives. Was blaming the s/w. Not the s/w. Got a Segate drive and s/w "baked" it the first time and I am now up and running again! 
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