InstantCake doesn't work!

[tristansonic@gmail.com]

I am just trying to image with the Instant Cake cd to a new hard drive for my series 2 standalone tivo which has only one smaller 80 gig hard drive. I want to remove the 80 gig and install a 160 gig hard drive.

I have been trying for 2 weeks to get InstantCake to work. I have re-downloaded the ISO and burned to different brands of cd and dvd disks. I can boot from the cd and the program runs right up until the part where you hit "ENTER" to bake the hard drive. It fails EVERY time with error

"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on devhdb, or too many mounted file systems.could this be the ide device where you in fact use ide scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?
/etc/rc.d/rc.S: /cdrom/.live/bin/PTVBake: no such file or directory"


This is how I currently have the hardware configured as per the instructions from this site:

Primary IDE: Master = nothing connected
Primary IDE: Slave CD/DVD burner (with jumper pin set to slave and physically on the middle connector on the primary ide cable)

Secondary IDE: Master = New blank 160 gig IDE hard drive (with jumper pin set to master and physically on the end connector on the secondary ide cable)
Secondary IDE: Master = nothing connected

Can anyone help me out or did I just waste $20.00? I already tried a low level format on the hard drive to delete any traces of anything.

Thanks in advance.

[tristansonic@gmail.com]

I am just trying to image with the Instant Cake cd to a new hard drive for my series 2 standalone tivo which has only one smaller 80 gig hard drive. I want to remove the 80 gig and install a 160 gig hard drive.

I have been trying for 2 weeks to get InstantCake to work. I have re-downloaded the ISO and burned to different brands of cd and dvd disks. I can boot from the cd and the program runs right up until the part where you hit "ENTER" to bake the hard drive. It fails EVERY time with error

"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on devhdb, or too many mounted file systems.could this be the ide device where you in fact use ide scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?
/etc/rc.d/rc.S: /cdrom/.live/bin/PTVBake: no such file or directory"


This is how I currently have the hardware configured as per the instructions from this site:

Primary IDE: Master = nothing connected
Primary IDE: Slave CD/DVD burner (with jumper pin set to slave and physically on the middle connector on the primary ide cable)

Secondary IDE: Master = New blank 160 gig IDE hard drive (with jumper pin set to master and physically on the end connector on the secondary ide cable)
Secondary IDE: Master = nothing connected

Can anyone help me out or did I just waste $20.00? I already tried a low level format on the hard drive to delete any traces of anything.

Thanks in advance.


Actually....Nevermind. I used WINMFS in Windows with the TIVO original hard drive connected to make the image from old hard drive then put it on new hard drive and it worked perfectly. After trying INSTANTCAKE and getting no tech support at all....other than the comment to buy a new hard drive with the image already on it"...WHATEVER! I wasted $20.00 for nothing then did it for FREE with WINFS.

[Lou Jacob]

The software does work...

It is possible that your PC was not configured as you thought (the error message you received is a known error that will occur when the CD-ROM is not configured correctly as a primary slave device.

If you have SATA devices in your PC, then it is most likely that the IDE devices are not PRIMARY and SECONDARY and in cases like that, the SATA devices should be disabled (or a different PC used)...

Lou

[tristansonic@gmail.com]

Good guess but there is no SATA on this motherboard and the cd/dvd drive is on the middle connector on the ide primary cable with the jumper pin set to slave also.

I used WINFS which is free and runs in Windows without corrupting your TIVO drive and made a backup then put that back up on the new hard drive all in about 20 mins at most.