Trying to fix Humax T800 TiVo DVR [Text View]

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Strilo

11-04-2007, 02:54 PM

I am trying to fix a major meltdown on my parents' TiVo Humax t800 Series 2 recorder. It was acting very glitchy, restarting and hanging on the Starting Up screen. Humax support basically wants them to buy a refurbished model. It seems to me that the software on the hard drive just became corrupt needs to be reinstalled. They had me try to do a kickstart but it would not even get past the first step.

I pulled the HD and checked it in Mac OS Disk Utility. The hard drive seems fine physically. I would like to image it with some sort of TiVo image. Is this possible? Is there an image out there for a Humax T800? Thanks!

dwit

11-04-2007, 04:08 PM

Instant Cake from dvrupgrade.com (http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/instantcake_display.cfm)

spolebitski

11-11-2007, 06:25 PM

moogoo112

11-12-2007, 11:06 PM

:mad: my t800 hard drive just broke too, just hangs after powering up. took it apart and its dead hard drive anyone have a image for this model? i have a few extra hard drives lying around.

dwit

11-13-2007, 04:59 AM

My Tivo same model did this today. Humax and Tivo were real quick to say buy a new tivo. They wanted nothing to do with helping me or offering customer service. Tivo did say well humax is not our product, we just sell them, we do not offer any support even if you buy it from us.

What did you ever do? Did instantcake help?

If the problem is truly in the hard drive(most of the time it is), and you merely need an image, there is no doubt that Instant Cake and a working drive will restore your Tivo to operability.

No doubt. Just make sure to get the version for your specific unit.

spolebitski

11-18-2007, 12:56 PM

new hard drive works, i put in a 80 gb that I had laying around and plan to purchase a new much bigger hard drive to replace the 80 gb replacement. I found InstantCake to be supper easy after I played with the program and my computer configuration.