Tivo not coming up on new hard drive with 2.5xtreme

[Reason]

Hi guys, I need some advice.

I have a Phillips DSR6000. Yesterday I took a 120GB Western Digital, put it in my PC and applied the 2.5xtreme software to it. Note, when I was adding the software it was designated as my secondary master. Everything seemed to work great. However, when I took out my original 40GB drive from my Tivo and replaced it with the 120GB drive, I connected the cables, turned on the power it stays on the startup message for a few seconds, then resets itself, then comes back to the startup message, then hangs on the "Almost there. A few more seconds please..." message. That's it. I left it that way when I went to bed last night and it was still there this am.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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[memike]

Have new Western Digital 100mb with 8mb cache, the new one.... Have tried EVERYTHING, everything I've read in EVERY tread about reboots with "powering up" screen over the past 2 weeks I've tried... no NO luck.

Got to be the drive...

Has ANYONE out there successfully loaded a new drive like this that works???????? If so, post what the big secret is to getting this to work!

Thanks in advance,
Mike

[captain_video]

There's no big secret. Check out the troubleshooting tips at this site:

www.weaknees.com

If everything checks out and all of your connections are good but you still can't power up completely, it's either the 2.5Xtreme image or your drive. Try running a diagnostic on the drive and make sure it checks out OK. WD will have one for download at their website. Otherwise, download a fresh image of 2.5Xtreme and start over. The framethrower link seems to be the one that most people are having luck with.