Failed drive replacement

[tmuse68]

My original HDVR2 came down with the stuck on "Welcome. Powering up." message so I assumed my drive failed. I tried following the Hinsdale procedure to install a new drive single 160gb drive. It still shows the same Welcome message. Did I do something wrong or is a bad drive not my problem? The process I followed is:

mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mfsrestore -s 127 -zpi /mnt/dos/phillips_hdvr2_3_1b.mfs /dev/hdd

[captain_video]

That should work as long as you installed the new drive in your PC as secondary slave and set the jumpers accordingly. You'd probably want to add the -x switch in the command line as well since your new drive is larger than the original. This will expand the partitions to fill the drive after completing the restore process. Otherwise you'll need to run mfsadd to expand the drive.

[run4fun]

I had the same "Powering up" problem. I wa unable to extract the image from the orig drive, so I got an image from the TIVOcommunity forum.

Problem is the restore fails. Restore gets to 98.9% then reports a restore failed 94%. I think the MFS file is bad, or something else is wrong. can you direct me to a site where I can get a huges HDRV2 Image.

I am replacing Orig drive with Maxtor 160gb. Used Maxblast to create a dos boot partition of 137gb.

[NutKase]

Did I do something wrong or is a bad drive not my problem?

We need more information. What does the serial output say?


NutKase