Most likely dead hard disk. The two clues are in your description:
This indicates bad sectors on the hard diskwhen I 1st plugged it back in and played some recordings they glitches and jumped at times.
This means the hard disk is not even being read. That screen is in the bootprom (like a PC BIOS) and not on the hard disk.Now it wont even turn on it is stuck at the "your recorder is starting up please wait a moment".
Assuming you have tried checking that all cables from motherboard and power supply are correctly seated the next step is to load the TiVo image onto another hard disk and see if that makes any difference. Anything from 4GB and up will do as a test hard disk. Latest images are located here: http://files.oztivo.net/images/iso/
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