Instantcake problems

[thefonzz2625]

I went ahead and ordered a hard drive for my hdr3120x (Philips).

I ran instantcake and it completed succesfully.

I put the drive back into the tivo and then power the device on.

It just hangs at the first tivo screen asking me to wait.

What did i do wrong? What can I do to troubleshoot?

The hd spins up and the tivo functions with the old hard drives
(after the GSOD).

[Rick Travis]

What type of hard drive did you buy, make, model, size? Have you run the manufacturers diagnostics?

[bretts]

Same issue

I have a TIVO series 1 Phillips HDR3120x which had previously been upgraded to have original Phillips 20G drive plus an 80gb WD drive. Worked frine for years. Decided to upgrade, so...

I bought a 500GB WD Caviar PATA Drive to upgrade my TIVO series 1 Phillips HDR3120x
I bought Instant Cake.

I followed instructions, ran Instant cake and got the successful msg - so Iassumed all was great.

I put the new 500GB drive in the TIVO unit, powered it up and couldn't get past initial black TIVO screen.

When I put back both original drives, I get the GSOD error, but then it restores to working order.

What am I doing wrong. How do I fix this?

[Rick Travis]

I do not know if the bios of that series one tivo can handle a drive that big. Sorry that is beyond my expertise.

[Lou Jacob]

Same issue

I have a TIVO series 1 Phillips HDR3120x which had previously been upgraded to have original Phillips 20G drive plus an 80gb WD drive. Worked frine for years. Decided to upgrade, so...

I bought a 500GB WD Caviar PATA Drive to upgrade my TIVO series 1 Phillips HDR3120x
I bought Instant Cake.

I followed instructions, ran Instant cake and got the successful msg - so Iassumed all was great.

I put the new 500GB drive in the TIVO unit, powered it up and couldn't get past initial black TIVO screen.

When I put back both original drives, I get the GSOD error, but then it restores to working order.

What am I doing wrong. How do I fix this?

It has nothing to do with the size of your hard drive, but it could be defective or be related to the discussion I started in this thread at TiVoCommunity; please take a look and consider adding to that discussion with any data you might have.

Also, run diagnostics on your new drive to rule out the possibility that it is defective.

[thefonzz2625]

I just ran WD Diagnostics on the drive and it came up fine. No errors,

Tried the jumper as master , slave and cable select, nothing is working.

Any other ideas?

[Rick Travis]

Drive must be set to master no slave present ( no jumpers ) I have this drive and it will not work with jumpers present.
in terms of jumpers nothing is the correct answer

[thefonzz2625]

I've tried it with no jumpers also.

If it helps the hard drive is a WD5000AAKB.

[Rick Travis]

Did you try it with no jumpers while InstantCaking? I own 8 of that model.

[thefonzz2625]

Would instant cake have succeeded if i did do it with the jumpers?