Funny thing happened to me

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This is semi on topic but sort of funny on how I wasted an hour of my life....It is a lesson in NEVER MAKE MULTIPLE CHANGES AT ONCE...
I have 3 HR10-250's...one had a HD recently die. Well I decided to use one of the others to image a new HD for the failed one. I had a lot of trouble imaging the new HD. (took me a few hours to finally get it done). Well after I verified the new drive in the previously dead unit, I put the "donor" machine back together. (Note this machine is in a closet that serves a dedicated home theater) At the same time I had also decided to setup a new Logitech Harmony remote. The donor machine booted back up and everything looked good. I then started testing the remote on switching between activities. (Plax Xbox360, Watch TiVO, Watch HTPC etc...) While the tivo booted I would switch the other activities and test them out. When I thought enough time elapsed for the TiVo to boot, I switched back to it. Hmmmm no picture, just a gray screen. I walk over to the unit and notice no lights on it. I pull the power and let it boot up. Seems to be booting ok, so I switch over to the PC and mess around on the internet waiting for the TiVo to boot. When enough time elapses I switch back to TiVo, same problem. Now I am getting worried. I popped the lid, and checked all the connections. I had it jumpered as Cable Select (Which is what it was originally), but noticed the dead drive on the other TiVo was set to Master (single drive). So I set it as such and booted.....same story I switched inputs while it booted....switch back and I get nothing, no lights on the unit and no picture. I checked all the connections again and booted. After it booted, I was in the middle of updating the Harmony so I used my old remote to switch to the input. This time everything looked good. At that instant I had a Eureka moment and I was right.....The stupid Harmony remote was toggling the power to the TiVo when switching to/from it. Since it was already on, it ended up switching it off when I switched to it. !@#?@#!?
I had to go into the software to tell it to never turn off that device. I wasn't used to no lights on the front since I never turn off any of my TiVo's.

I felt stupid and relieved at the same time.


Dino

 

Once I used the right tool, the copy took literally5 minutes. I was trying to use mfsbackup and mfsrestore. The restore kept failing. Later I found the mfslive website, used their new cd and their interactive command generator.

Dino