before I take my TIVO apart... has anyone tried??? ...

[danny burstein]

Just wondering if putting in a larger hard drive
is as simple as the next paragraphs sound...

(I swapped out a bunch of drives five plus years
ago and after cursing far too many times, wound
up getting the pre-formatted ["blessed"] ones).

Could I just take the TIVO drive, hook it up
to a USB cable adapter, take the new, larger drive, do
likewise, and then use "carbon copy cloner" (for Mac)
to dupe the first onto the second, and then...

then.. just (re)install the new drive?

Or am I dreaming?

Thanks

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[Peter H. Coffin]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:31:58 -0500, danny burstein wrote:
> Just wondering if putting in a larger hard drive
> is as simple as the next paragraphs sound...
>
> (I swapped out a bunch of drives five plus years
> ago and after cursing far too many times, wound
> up getting the pre-formatted ["blessed"] ones).
>
> Could I just take the TIVO drive, hook it up
> to a USB cable adapter, take the new, larger drive, do
> likewise, and then use "carbon copy cloner" (for Mac)
> to dupe the first onto the second, and then...
>
> then.. just (re)install the new drive?
>
> Or am I dreaming?

That's essentially it. Though the details are fussy.

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html has more
than enough details.

Keep your original drive. It doesn't seem that it's possible to
re-expand and already expanded drive image. So if you replace a 40GB
drive with a 300GB drive and expand it to fill 300GB, replacing the
300GB drive with a 750GB one will leave you stuck with a drive than
thinks it's 300 GB... But if you copy the 40 GB image onto the 750 and
expand THAT image, you'll have a 750GB tivo.

--
"... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die...". -- Peter Gutmann in the scary.devil.monastery

[Character]

danny burstein wrote:

> Just wondering if putting in a larger hard drive
> is as simple as the next paragraphs sound...
>
> (I swapped out a bunch of drives five plus years
> ago and after cursing far too many times, wound
> up getting the pre-formatted ["blessed"] ones).
>
> Could I just take the TIVO drive, hook it up
> to a USB cable adapter, take the new, larger drive, do
> likewise, and then use "carbon copy cloner" (for Mac)
> to dupe the first onto the second, and then...
>
> then.. just (re)install the new drive?
>
> Or am I dreaming?
>
> Thanks

Not completely, but it may not be as straightforward as you would think.

Do some googling for upgrading Tivo Hard Disk.

Here's one of many valuable hits:

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html

Also, for little more than the cost of a new drive, you can buy one
from Weaknees already configured, with full installation instructions
and tools. OF course, that's what you did five- years ago. And it
avoids the cursing.

http://www.weaknees.com

[Dr. Personality]

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.09...@panix5.panix.com>, danny
burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:

> Just wondering if putting in a larger hard drive
> is as simple as the next paragraphs sound...
>
> (I swapped out a bunch of drives five plus years
> ago and after cursing far too many times, wound
> up getting the pre-formatted ["blessed"] ones).
>
> Could I just take the TIVO drive, hook it up
> to a USB cable adapter, take the new, larger drive, do
> likewise, and then use "carbon copy cloner" (for Mac)
> to dupe the first onto the second, and then...
>
> then.. just (re)install the new drive?
>
> Or am I dreaming?
>
> Thanks

I have upgraded Series 1 TiVos several times without trouble. You have
to follow the Weaknees directions carefully, though. We have had
people come in here who say they can't get the job done even though
they tried using drives "formatted for TiVo," whatever that was
supposed to mean. To answer your question directly, no, you can't
clone the drive that way and make it usable by the TiVo. There are Mac
solutions for upgrades. Check the Weaknees site.

I'd also have to say that letting Weaknees do the work for you, and you
paying them, is not the worst solution, not by a long shot.