RE: Help... TiVo died on the operating table

["UKHA" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a follow up to the "I've nuked my Tivo drive by booting Windows
with my
Tivo Drive plugged in",
I've just found this fix...  http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ewill/tivo/

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: UKHA [mailto:mailinglists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 June 2004 10:12
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Help... TiVo died on the operating table


Probably, but my Linux skills don't stretch that far.
I'm guessing that if you had another drive with an uncorrupted backup
restored to it, you could use the Linux DD command to copy the first few
sectors of the drive over to the corrupt drive which may fix it.

I don't know the Linux equivalent of the dos "fdisk /mbr" command
which
rebuilds the mbr (to MS spec)...

Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Billinghurst [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 June 2004 00:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Help... TiVo died on the operating table


Can I not make this drive 'As New' with an Fdisk / Linux Format type
operation? and If so do you know how?

-----Original Message-----
From: "UKHA" <mailinglists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:53:49 +0100
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Help... TiVo died on the operating table

"Having read the guides on the web about restores it says do not let
your
w2000 pc boot with the drive connected as this can cause problems,
doesn't say what or how to fix though.."

It's to do with Win2K changing the Master Boot Record on the drive
badly.
It being a Linux type file system this leaves it unable to boot.
As far as fixing it goes, I haven't seen any way of fixing it.
I'd guess you could to a sector to sector copy of the MBR, but Win2K may
have smashed other things too...

Lee.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Billinghurst [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 June 2004 23:15
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Help... TiVo died on the operating table


As others have had no problems I suspect it's my download / Drive,
Having read the guides on the web about restores it says do not let
your
w2000 pc boot with the drive connected as this can cause problems,
doesn't say what or how to fix though.. could it be this? I've taken
another BT today and am trying that at present just in case, else I
will
get a new drive tomorrow and see if that make a difference,

Will let you know how I get on, meanwhile if anyone has any ideas
in-between I would be grateful for any advice,

Many thanks, Stuart.

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[mailto:sentto-1109639-100579-1088107260-stuart=billinghursts.com@return
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Sent: 24 June 2004 21:01
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Help... TiVo died on the operating table


Stuart Billinghurst wrote:

> I saw that someone else downloaded that BT of the Virgin Tivo,
>
> Having tried the restore it fails at 69.94% with a decompression
error, I am
> thinking this may be a download fault so an re-downloading it from
BT,
but
> has anyone else had a problme with this file or this problem
restoring? Do I
> have a fault else than the backup file?

:( Sorry to hear that.

I have not heard of anyone having problems with that file...... it has
been ftp downloaded on countless occasions, and my tracker says it's
been downloaded at least 10 times.

I've certainly not had anyone else say they've had a problem with it.

Are you following Hinsdale's with restore a pre-tested image? Do you
have a spare drive you could try restoring to (at least 40Gb) incase
it's a drive problem?

Cheers
--
Doogie




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