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I tried upgrading from a single drive Tivo to a larger single drive setup, but the result was a "Serious Error..." message after the "Powering Up" screen. Below are the details. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Series 2 DirecTiVo TIVO - Philips DSR704
Philips 35hr DSR704 DirecTiVo, Single 40GB A drive
Original drive: Maxtor Fireball 3 ATA/133 – 40 GB
New Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE – 320 GB
Current software version: 6.2-01-2-301
Steps taken:
• Note: New drive had been previously formatted under NTFS
• Downloaded MFS Tools boot CD (11.5 mb version)
• Step 7: Backup your Tivo drive with MFS Tools - OPTION #3 (limited use): COPYING TiVo DRIVE TO NEW UPGRADE DRIVE
dd if={orig Tivo drive} of={new drive} bs=1024k
• Step 10: Return drive to your PC and perform the recording capacity upgrade - UPGRADE CONFIGURATION #3: From: Any Single Drive TiVo
To: New A and New B Drive |or| New Single Larger A Drive
(Slow option – preserves setup, season passes, etc. and recordings)
mfsbackup –Tao – {orig Tivo drive} | mfsrestore –s 127 –xzpi – {new drive}
• Put new drive into Tivo jumperd to cable select (same as original drive). After “powering up” screen, received a message something like “Serious Error…” Tried it with the drive jumpered to Master, but same result.
Series 2 DirecTiVo TIVO - Philips DSR704
Philips 35hr DSR704 DirecTiVo, Single 40GB A drive
Original drive: Maxtor Fireball 3 ATA/133 – 40 GB
New Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE – 320 GB
Current software version: 6.2-01-2-301
Steps taken:
• Note: New drive had been previously formatted under NTFS
• Downloaded MFS Tools boot CD (11.5 mb version)
• Step 7: Backup your Tivo drive with MFS Tools - OPTION #3 (limited use): COPYING TiVo DRIVE TO NEW UPGRADE DRIVE
dd if={orig Tivo drive} of={new drive} bs=1024k
• Step 10: Return drive to your PC and perform the recording capacity upgrade - UPGRADE CONFIGURATION #3: From: Any Single Drive TiVo
To: New A and New B Drive |or| New Single Larger A Drive
(Slow option – preserves setup, season passes, etc. and recordings)
mfsbackup –Tao – {orig Tivo drive} | mfsrestore –s 127 –xzpi – {new drive}
• Put new drive into Tivo jumperd to cable select (same as original drive). After “powering up” screen, received a message something like “Serious Error…” Tried it with the drive jumpered to Master, but same result.
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