I'd suggest you try the original command--which showed 70 hours--again to confirm that your backup and drive are still good, because the commands look right to me.

follow-up (Problem solved)

Thanks for the input. Turns out that after MFSadding, my bootpage somehow got corrupted, so I thought the problem was with MFSadd. I downloaded WINMFS and used the bootpage repair utility. That fixed the problem and my TIVO system has been restored and expanded. Thanks for your help.

OK - sounds right. The whole bootpage issue with Windows PCs is definitely a problem in the way Windows PCs work.

Further follow up. I think my orig. problem may have been due to a failing hard drive. Several weeks later, the HDD died. I used Seagate's SEAtools for Win and did a long DST--> fail. SEAtools for DOS was unable to complete diagnosis. I contacted Seagate & they are repairing the drive.

One followup question, if you have the time to answer. I have several old HDDs and I did multiple restores of my TIVO system using MFStools onto EIDE drives. None of them ever booted. I used the appropriate diagnostic HDD tools (SEAtools for my Seagate drives) to verify that the EIDE drives are in good working order.

I then used WINMFS to copy the TIVO system off of an EIDE drive that did NOT boot onto a SATA drive, and the SATA system works fine (using a SATA to EIDE converter, of course). I also directly restored my TIVO system (using MFStools) onto the same SATA drive, and the system boots too. I cannot understand why my EIDE drives don't seem to work, while the exact same system on my SATA drives do (working through a SATA/EIDE adapter). I have rechecked that I have the single EIDE drive jumpered to Master, and fully pushed in the jumper pin.