I screwed up my TiVo

[Jay Bozich]

So heres the deal,

I've had a series one for a while and am now retiring it as I will no longer have a land line. I also bought a brand new unit from best buy today, but.

I just bought a series 2 from someone online last week.

It has an extra hard drive in it that's REALLY noisey.

I thought I'd disconnect it and see what happens as I saw that the original tivo drive was in there still and this appeared to be the secondary.

I do this, obviously not noing how the TiVo file hierarchy works.

Power back up, the hard drive spins up and the black 'powering up' screen comes on and stays like that for a very long time, like ten minutes or so.

I then figure that it's looking for the second drive so I power down and reconnect the second drive.

Now when I plug it back in nothing powers up except for the cooling fan.
Both hard drives do not power up.

All connections look fine. check double check.

Is it dead?
I did bad obviously.
Can I get it working again?
Or if not get the programs off my drive?
Actually send it in for repair???

Help appriciated.

JB

[lessd]

If you don't have a way of putting the TiVo image back on the first drive you will have to talk to Weaknees about a repair..call them.

[HookedOnTivo]

If you don't have a way of putting the TiVo image back on the first drive you will have to talk to Weaknees about a repair..call them.



If the fan spins up then the power supply is probably working correctly. Since the drives no longer spin up, try finding any other hard drive that you know is working and plug it in to see if it will power up. If it doesn't, then something is wrong with the TiVo's power supply. Also, I'm assuming you know not to do any of this unless the tivo is unplugged first. :D I'm not trying to be a wiseass. Sometimes we get people in here who know absolutely nothing about TiVos or computer electronics in general.