Re: Help!! TiVo won't boot

[Stuart Poulton <swp@xxxxxxx>]

Graham

Firstly don't panic.

> I think my TiVo's HD has gone, and guess what, no backups!
> I've removed it from the TiVo and connected it to my PC on IDE channel
1,
> primary.  Booted up from a DOS floppy, ran "QUNLOCK
0".
> BIOS now recognises the drive as 40Gb, however PC will not boot from
it -
> just says DISK BOOT FAILURE.

A TIVO disk won't boot a PC, whilst it is Linux, it's not x86 based.

> I then ran DOS fidsk to see the partition definitions, but it says
NONE are
> defined.

Not sure that Dos fdiks is able to recorgnise  Linux partitions.

> Have I lost everything?  If so, where do I go from here to get my
TiVo up
> and running again?

I suggest you get in touch with the guys over on

www.tivocommunity.com

Stuart

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