looking for help with PTVBake-Special

[TuesdaysChild]

I posted this question over at the Tivo COmmunity Forums a few days ago but it hasn't gotten any responses yet. I'm hoping someone here might be able to help.

I'm trying to upgrade a 649080. I purchased a 400gb drive and instantcake. When I went to do the upgrade, I found out my computer only has one IDE cable. The version of instantcake I have does not allow you to enter into advanced mode to change the destination drives. Lou suggested that I run the PTVbake-special script (found on the free LBA48 CD) after booting and specify the drive letters. Can someone tell me how I would go about specifying the drive letters?

Thanks!

	InstantCake InstantCake is a DIY software utility used to image a a new hard drive so that it can be used in your TiVo DVR. This is an easy way to repair a TiVo with a defective drive, or to upgrade a TiVo by installing a larger drive in place of the original.

[Lou Jacob]

Originally Posted by TuesdaysChild

I posted this question over at the Tivo COmmunity Forums a few days ago but it hasn't gotten any responses yet. I'm hoping someone here might be able to help.

I'm trying to upgrade a 649080. I purchased a 400gb drive and instantcake. When I went to do the upgrade, I found out my computer only has one IDE cable. The version of instantcake I have does not allow you to enter into advanced mode to change the destination drives. Lou suggested that I run the PTVbake-special script (found on the free LBA48 CD) after booting and specify the drive letters. Can someone tell me how I would go about specifying the drive letters?

Thanks!

I just checked and PTVbake-special does not let you assign drive letters while running. However you can either edit the PTVbake script, or the PTVbake-special script using "vi" (which is also on the CD).

Just change the assignment from this:

CDROM="hdb"
PTVupgradeA="hdc"
PTVupgradeB="hdd"
DRIVES="1"

to whatever it needs to be for your particular PC.

	InstantCake InstantCake is a DIY software utility used to image a a new hard drive so that it can be used in your TiVo DVR. This is an easy way to repair a TiVo with a defective drive, or to upgrade a TiVo by installing a larger drive in place of the original.