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Eagles2k3
12-22-2004, 01:52 PM
This is my first post after reading these forums for the last two weeks. I hope I haven't missed something simple, and this is my first attempt to hack the tivo.

I have a Philips DSR7000 and am following Montano's instructions. I'm using a 160 GB drive, but I really don't want the extra space beyond the 137GB limit. I did an mfsrestore using the mfstools on the tivoscripts CD. I put the drive in the tivo and it worked perfectly. The image I used for the restore was the 4.01b image that Alphawolf provided a link on emule. I put the tivo back in the computer and attempted to run the bootpage command on it. This reports a "does not appear to be a valid Tivo Drive". If I run pdisk on it, I get what looks like a good drive, and it also looks like it hasn't gone beyond the 137GB based on what I've read from other posts. My tivo drive is the primary slave so I used \dev\hdb with bootpage.

Lost Dog
12-22-2004, 01:57 PM
This is my first post after reading these forums for the last two weeks. I hope I haven't missed something simple, and this is my first attempt to hack the tivo.

I have a Philips DSR7000 and am following Montano's instructions. I'm using a 160 GB drive, but I really don't want the extra space beyond the 137GB limit. I did an mfsrestore using the mfstools on the tivoscripts CD. I put the drive in the tivo and it worked perfectly. The image I used for the restore was the 4.01b image that Alphawolf provided a link on emule. I put the tivo back in the computer and attempted to run the bootpage command on it. This reports a "does not appear to be a valid Tivo Drive". If I run pdisk on it, I get what looks like a good drive, and it also looks like it hasn't gone beyond the 137GB based on what I've read from other posts. My tivo drive is the primary slave so I used \dev\hdb with bootpage.

Did you ever let WindowsXP boot while this drive was attached? If so, you made TiVo very unhappy....

Eagles2k3
12-22-2004, 01:59 PM
I've done enough reading in this forum to know that I should never let XP boot with this drive attached :) . I'd never allow that to happen.

Eagles2k3
12-22-2004, 02:05 PM
OK. I downloaded the new version of bootpage that was posted by alldeadhomiez and bootpage came back correctly....I hope this thread will help someone else.