Ok, I need help. After I purchased a maxtor 160 gb drive from Fry's, I copied over the old 40 gb drive with all recordings intact. Everything went fine. I installed the new replacement drive, and checked it out. everything worked great. all shows were there, they played paused, rewound. I could record new shows as well. then, when my wife tried to do a search for a show, all of a sudden the "Please Wait" screen came on. We waited for about 30 minutes, when I decided that I wasn't waiting any longer. I tried pushing all of the buttons on the tivo, nothing, so I unplugged it, waited 15 seconds, then plugged it back in.

The power up screen came on, then the green screen of death came on. It said something about a severe error occuring and having to wait 3 hours with it plugged in. I figured that watevever the problem it was somthing I caused. So, since I didn't replace the small IDE ribbon, that may have been the cause. I unplugged the Tivo, installed a brand new IDE ribbon, and replaced the cover and hooked it up. Same green screen of death. So now I am in the process of re-imaging my new 160 gb drive.

Can anyone help me? did I do somthing wrong? One of the things it may be is this. Prior to my initial re-image of the hard drive, I almost let windows XP boot up with the old drive attached. It got to the Windows XP screen, before I could shut the PC down. I don't know if it had time to mess up the boot sector. I assumed that if it had I would have not been able to use the new drive in the Tivo box at all.

Please help!