dshinnick
06-17-2004, 08:14 PM
Hey gang, thanks in advance for some help.
I have a SA S2 which was working fine; it was a restore from a previous drive, so I figured I couldn't use it for the Sleeper hack, but it was working fine and I have a backup of it.
I got a new, unhacked 40-hour SA S2 and backed up/restored it (with Sleeper) to another 40-gig drive as a test. It worked. I then applied the Sleeper hacks to it. It freezes at the "Powering..." screen. I then went to restore the original backup to it again, and it says there isn't enough space to hold the image! I low-level formatted the drive with the manufacturer's utility, and I still cannot restore the image to it; lack of space, it reports. This is the same drive which held the image, and worked, until I applied the hacks.
I have another drive, 120G Seagate Barracuda, which, after restoring the image to it, gets to the Powering... screen, then after about 30 seconds. "reboots", back to the Powering.... screen, waits awhile, then reboots. Loops constantly. I have low-leveled the drive with the manufacturer's utility, restored the image, and same results.
The fact that low-leveling the drive does not restore it to its absolutely original state blows me away! What don't I understand about low-leveling a drive; writing zeroes to the whole thing? And what might be causing this constant rebooting at the Powering screen?
As of now, I have no functioning Tivo at all. I'd still like to do the hacks, but at least I'd love to get my Tivo back! I do have a backup which has proven to work. Any ideas?
Dave
I have a SA S2 which was working fine; it was a restore from a previous drive, so I figured I couldn't use it for the Sleeper hack, but it was working fine and I have a backup of it.
I got a new, unhacked 40-hour SA S2 and backed up/restored it (with Sleeper) to another 40-gig drive as a test. It worked. I then applied the Sleeper hacks to it. It freezes at the "Powering..." screen. I then went to restore the original backup to it again, and it says there isn't enough space to hold the image! I low-level formatted the drive with the manufacturer's utility, and I still cannot restore the image to it; lack of space, it reports. This is the same drive which held the image, and worked, until I applied the hacks.
I have another drive, 120G Seagate Barracuda, which, after restoring the image to it, gets to the Powering... screen, then after about 30 seconds. "reboots", back to the Powering.... screen, waits awhile, then reboots. Loops constantly. I have low-leveled the drive with the manufacturer's utility, restored the image, and same results.
The fact that low-leveling the drive does not restore it to its absolutely original state blows me away! What don't I understand about low-leveling a drive; writing zeroes to the whole thing? And what might be causing this constant rebooting at the Powering screen?
As of now, I have no functioning Tivo at all. I'd still like to do the hacks, but at least I'd love to get my Tivo back! I do have a backup which has proven to work. Any ideas?
Dave