a little clarification please..

[mister]

let me first say thanks to everyone for the the wealth of great information.

im the guy that probably shouldnt be moding my tivo (my ps2 is still in pieces :( ) i have a dsr 704 with a stock 40 gig. i am replacing that with a 120 gig. i have tivoscripts 1.02. i have read a lot, and this is where i get confused as every how-to seems to be a bit different. i started out by using the hinsdale how-to but when i run tivoscripts i assume it performs the commands for you? great work BTW sleeper. i hooked everythign up like tivoscripts said and went thru the steps of copying my original image. it went thru renaming etc and got to the point of restarting and hooking up my new hd. once i did this and restarted it resumed and started copying the original image to my new hd. everything seemed to work ok. i put it back in the tivo to test but all i get is welcome, powering up. all the connections are fine. so i tried to write the image again and it failed.. any ideas on whats goign on? thanks for your help guys :)

[captain_video]

Make sure you've got the Tivo drive configured as secondary master when you install it in your PC. Check and make sure the BIOS is recognizing the drives at bootup. Make sure you've got the jumpers set correctly on your Tivo drive and your new drive when installing them in the PC. The Tivo drive is set to cable select by default and your new drive probably is as well. Make sure they're both set to master or single drive (not master with slave). Setting the jumpers incorrectly could result in a failed backup or restore.

[Meklos]

Make sure you've got the Tivo drive configured as secondary master when you install it in your PC. Check and make sure the BIOS is recognizing the drives at bootup. Make sure you've got the jumpers set correctly on your Tivo drive and your new drive when installing them in the PC. The Tivo drive is set to cable select by default and your new drive probably is as well. Make sure they're both set to master or single drive (not master with slave). Setting the jumpers incorrectly could result in a failed backup or restore.

And let's not forget the one that got me. Make sure your new drive is set the same way as your old drive was, with regards to 'master-slave-cableselect'. I always get that confused, and I swear sometimes my DSR704 wants the drive set as CS and sometimes as master.

Where's the 'do what I mean' jumper? ;)