Quite some time ago perhaps 9 - 12 months one of my Tivos stopped powering up. It would just sit on the powering up screen with a single green light on the front. I've tried to reboot it a few times over the months to no avail. I had the other Tivo so wasn't in too much of a hurry to fix it but as the second one is getting older I thought I should look into fixing the first one as a spare. After spending hours on-line reading about similar symptoms on WeaKnees and other overseas sites and having a close inspection of the caps on the power-board (which incidentally doesn't appear to be the same on the WeaKnees Series3 HD models) I concluded that it was probably the HDD that was faulty and was about to order a replacement and then realised I could swap the first Tivo drive into the second Tivo as a test. If it failed to boot then I'd know it was definitely the drive. Well blow me down if it didn't boot up! Ok then it must be the power-board or something else. So I put the second Tivo drive into the first Tivo... and...that one powered up as well! So I swapped them back again and the first one is still powering up Doh!
So now quite unexpectedly I have two Tivo's working again! Yeah!
Now It might be possible that unplugging the sata/powercable has corrected the fault but just in case the Tivo is just lulling me into a false sense of security I've decided that I need to take the drive back out and take an ISO of the OS so that I can put it onto a new drive if necessary. Does any one know what programme definitely works on the NZ Tivo drives as I understand that what works on the overseas Tivo's wont work on ours? Maybe this http://www.mfslive.org/winmfs/ ? I don't want to brick the OS by using the wrong software. I understand the Tivo is Linux based whereas I have access to a windows7 based computer.
Thanks for your help in advance
Robin
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