Copying One Harddrive To Another

[comet24]

Hi Everyone

I Have A Problem With One Of My Tivos. I Have 2 Tivos Model Tcd2404a.

The Other Tivo Is Working Fine. The Problem With The First Tivo Is That Everytime It Phones Home It Gets Stuck On Negotiating In The Connceting Stage.and I Cant Connect By Network Cause The Soft' Ver. Is 4.0.1b Before The Upgrade To Networking. And The Thing Is That I Got Stuck In The Middle Of Guided Setup.so I Called Support And They Told Me That The Modem Stopped Working And That The Tivo Is Useless. So I Swiched The Harddrives And Tried With The Goog Tivo And I Got The Same Problem Which Means Its Not The Modem Its A Software Problem .

I Would Like To Copy The Good Harddrive (which Has A Better Software Also)
Onto The Bad Harddrive .
I'm Thinking Just To Do An Exact Copy By Connecting Both Harddrives To The Pc.
I Dont Want To Do The Whole Thing With The Image, Cakewalk And Everything. Just To Do An Exact Copy .

Can You Guys Tell Me What Software To Boot Up The Computer With
And What Set Of Commands To Write To Erase Or Format The Bad Drive And Copy The Good One Onto It ?because I'm Not So Good With Linux.
Thanks In Advance Guys
I'll Keep You Posted On How It Went.

[puffdaddy]

Wow, at least you can't be accused of not captializing.

Okay, but back to your question. I read far enough through to offer this: version 4.0.1b software can do both the initial dial in and the nightly guide data call through the network. Set the calling prefix to ,#401 and it will go over the Ethernet: note that with the guided set up, it won't allow you to configure the Ethenet settings, so you might need to either hack the box (to get to those settings) or disable WEP (if you're using wireless) and set your router to give out DHCP addresses.

The stuck on the negotiation phase is something that I've typically seen in hacked boxes that are set to block calls to the mothership (tyipcally in rc.sysinit.author). You don't have any static routes set up to block such calls, do you?

pd

[comet24]

i dont think it was hacked before i got it. and i dont have ant block on its from the router.
anyways i passed this stage now : i swiched to demo mode and then again to customer mode and now there's a screen that says 'clearing and deleting everything - this will take an hour' - its been 2 hours almost and i think the screen has frose.

so i think the best way to go is to copy the good drive onto the this one . i just need to know how to do that. with the commands and everything. help please!?

[wscannell]

All the info you need can be found here: http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php

Once you get the drive copied and put in the other TiVo, you will need to do a "Clear and Delete Everything" to match the hard drive to the motherboard.

[comet24]

thanks ,i'll try that.