jimbobjr
04-12-2005, 09:04 PM
I recently helped my brother-in-law upgrade his S1 TiVo to a 250 GB hd. We used the disc image at http://www.ptvupgrade.com/products/software/lba48/index.html.
It was much easier than it should have been and I probably should have known better. We backed up the old drive and then restored onto the new one. When we installed the new drive to test it reported the full size, so we thought well that looks good. We didn't run the COPYKERN command and I assumed because the TiVo recognized the full capacity that it had been incorporate into the disc image we used to do the restore.
A week later he started having problems with skips in playback.
> I'm getting strange jumps during playback, both
> forward and backward (amount of time varies widely
> from maybe 15 minutes to an hour). I can usually
> trick it by skipping ahead 30 seconds beyond the
> trouble point and backtracking, but it is a problem
> on many recordings.
Then another week passed and the TiVo failed.
> I woke up this morning to find TIVO frozen on a commercial from what
> had been live TV.* None of the remote control bottons*responded*so I
> pulled the power cord.* When I plugged it back in all I got was*"Your
> recorder is starting up, please wait a moment" and it got stuck there.
>
> I'm guessing it's a bad drive?* I did a little research and there was
> apparently a software update recently that caused some trouble like
> this.* What do you think?
I threw a number of options at him (see below) but wondered if anybody could offer any more solid advice on how to fix the problem. Thanks in advance.
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As far as the options...
1
Try the COPYKERN command on the failed drive. Worst
case it's only wasted time. The problem may reoccur
when Tivo makes it's daily call and upgrades, but I
wouldn't be certain that's the case. Tivo as a company
has no history of sabotaging upgrades.
2
Start from scratch with the new drive wiping out the
recordings since the upgrade and do the COPYKERN at
the end.
This is the URL to the disc image we used for the
upgrade:
http://www.ptvupgrade.com/products/software/lba48/index.html
Direct link
http://www.ptvupgrade.com/products/software/lba48/lba_4.01_license.html
3
Start over with the new drive and forget about the
large disk access. Tivo should ignore the extra
capacity as it does with mine.
These are the instructions I used...
http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html
Attached is the actual disc image I used since it may
have changed at that location since I grabbed it.
Then...
a
Add the new drive to your existing drive. The risk
here is that once you do, they become married and you
will need a backup to restore. You'll lose your old
recordings if something goes wrong and you don't back
them up.
OR
b
Replace your existing with the new. This may be the
safest option but you will lose about half of your
potential capacity.
It was much easier than it should have been and I probably should have known better. We backed up the old drive and then restored onto the new one. When we installed the new drive to test it reported the full size, so we thought well that looks good. We didn't run the COPYKERN command and I assumed because the TiVo recognized the full capacity that it had been incorporate into the disc image we used to do the restore.
A week later he started having problems with skips in playback.
> I'm getting strange jumps during playback, both
> forward and backward (amount of time varies widely
> from maybe 15 minutes to an hour). I can usually
> trick it by skipping ahead 30 seconds beyond the
> trouble point and backtracking, but it is a problem
> on many recordings.
Then another week passed and the TiVo failed.
> I woke up this morning to find TIVO frozen on a commercial from what
> had been live TV.* None of the remote control bottons*responded*so I
> pulled the power cord.* When I plugged it back in all I got was*"Your
> recorder is starting up, please wait a moment" and it got stuck there.
>
> I'm guessing it's a bad drive?* I did a little research and there was
> apparently a software update recently that caused some trouble like
> this.* What do you think?
I threw a number of options at him (see below) but wondered if anybody could offer any more solid advice on how to fix the problem. Thanks in advance.
------------
As far as the options...
1
Try the COPYKERN command on the failed drive. Worst
case it's only wasted time. The problem may reoccur
when Tivo makes it's daily call and upgrades, but I
wouldn't be certain that's the case. Tivo as a company
has no history of sabotaging upgrades.
2
Start from scratch with the new drive wiping out the
recordings since the upgrade and do the COPYKERN at
the end.
This is the URL to the disc image we used for the
upgrade:
http://www.ptvupgrade.com/products/software/lba48/index.html
Direct link
http://www.ptvupgrade.com/products/software/lba48/lba_4.01_license.html
3
Start over with the new drive and forget about the
large disk access. Tivo should ignore the extra
capacity as it does with mine.
These are the instructions I used...
http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html
Attached is the actual disc image I used since it may
have changed at that location since I grabbed it.
Then...
a
Add the new drive to your existing drive. The risk
here is that once you do, they become married and you
will need a backup to restore. You'll lose your old
recordings if something goes wrong and you don't back
them up.
OR
b
Replace your existing with the new. This may be the
safest option but you will lose about half of your
potential capacity.