Directv Tivo hdd upgrade

[frank325i]

I recently tried to upgred my directv r10 I backed my old tivo hard drive and then tried to copy my old hard drive to my new 160 use mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 /dev/hdb. After it finished it said that my drive was upgrade from 78hrs to 167 hrs but when I put the drive into my tivo it shows powering up but then freezes and show a grey screen. Put my orignal drive back in and the unit worked fine. What is causing this problem

[Arcady]

Backups do not work when made in a big long run-on sentence.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Are you sure the jumper was set back to master or cable select when you put the new drive in the tivo?

[frank325i]

My hdd was set to cable select on jmy old hdd

[frank325i]

I set my new one also to cable select

[Arcady]

The command you put there doesn't look quite right. Assuming you have the drive letters correct, here would be the correct command to use in mfs:

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hda

I'd also try the new drive on master to see if that works.

[frank325i]

The reason it hdb is because I have my C: drive on hda

[Arcady]

Sorry, I meant to type hdb at the end of that command. You were missing other parts of the command though.

[frank325i]

What am I missing

[Arcady]

I didn't see the -xzpi - in yours.

[frank325i]

I forgot to put that in my thread it was part of my command

[Arcady]

Okay, then I don't know what else could be wrong. Sorry.

Perhaps someone else will have an idea (when it is not the middle of the night.)

[frank325i]

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

[frank325i]

thanks for the help

[frank325i]

One final question what should my new hdd be formated as

[litzdog911]

One final question what should my new hdd be formated as

You don't need to format the new hard drive. MFSTools takes care of that for you.