TiVo Community Forums Archives - Question about Hinsdale's Instructions

TiVoCommunity.com
(c)opyright 1995-2005 All rights reserved
indexcheckTC
This area is a static history of posts in the TiVo Community Forum Archive.
This archive history was made for the simple indexing of search sites like Google.

Pages:1

Question about Hinsdale's Instructions
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)

Posted by: tonyoci

Hi there, I am soon going to upgrade my DirecTivo unit. I am fairly comfortable inside the PC but I am far from an expert.

In reading the instructions I got a little confused about one or two thing.

1. I want to copy my existing drive including recordings to my new drive. Step 7 and Step 10 both offer slightly different instructions on how to do this. Am I correct that I should make a backup of the software (not recordings) by following section 7, then go to section 10 #3 to copy the drive ?. It seems that section 7 and section 10 have instructions for copying the whole drive so I am a little confused.

2. At the end there is a reference to Windows XP, this confuses me. I do have XP, is there something I HAVE to do or is it just a warning. If I am following 10 #3 then it tells me to remove my C: drive so I cannot see this being an issue but it is confusing.

Thanks

Tony

Posted by: meyerwj

I believe the XP warning is that you dont want to have your hard drive in the computer and xp load at the same time it writes info to drive and will lead to problems from waht I have been told....

Posted by: Robert S

XP will render your TiVo unbootable if it boots while your TiVo drive is connected. Linux has read-only support for NTFS. You need a FAT partition to write a backup file.

Posted by: charlieg

quote:
Originally posted by tonyoci

1. I want to copy my existing drive including recordings to my new drive. Step 7 and Step 10 both offer slightly different instructions on how to do this. Am I correct that I should make a backup of the software (not recordings) by following section 7, then go to section 10 #3 to copy the drive ?. It seems that section 7 and section 10 have instructions for copying the whole drive so I am a little confused.

Yes, this sounds fine. Make a backup (sans recordings) and then use the procedure in section 10 to copy everything. The procedure outlined toward the end of section 7 (using dd) will also work for copying your entire disk but will not expand swap so you are better off using the instructions in section 10 #3 for that.

- Charlie