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Can I copy the shows to another tivo (legally and easily)
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Posted by: tonyoci

I have no intention of breaking any laws I just want to solve a problem.

Here is what I would like to do.

I have two Hughes DirecTivo's (lets call them yellow and green), The yellow has a 80gb drive but the sound does not work out of the RF or RCA's, I distribute this through the house using the cable so that's a problem. Green Tivo is an unmodified 35 hrs.

What I want to do is this

1) Buy an HDVR2 - I think this part is easy and legal
2) Take the drive out of the yellow TIVO and restore it to the green one (easy I think)
3) BUT...... I want a way to keep the recordings on the 80 hour one - this is where I suspect the problem lies.

On a related issue - If I switch the 80gb drive and I find that I cannot keep the recordings, is it just as simple as putting the 80gb drive in the green tivo and then running a "delete everything". No need to restore software or reformat or anything like that ?

Thanks

T

Posted by: bsnelson

Item 1) is the only one you can do. Step 2) will force you to do the "clear and delete everything", thus negating step 3).

Brad

Posted by: brimus

quote:
Originally posted by tonyoci

1) Buy an HDVR2 - I think this part is easy and legal
2) Take the drive out of the yellow TIVO and restore it to the green one (easy I think)
3) BUT...... I want a way to keep the recordings on the 80 hour one - this is where I suspect the problem lies.

Thanks

T

If both are the same Hughes Series 1 DTivo's then the drives should swap with no problems. A drive swap should keep all recordings intact on the 80 gig.

Posted by: stevel

No, a drive swap won't work - bsnelson explains why.

On the "related note" - yes, all you have to do is a "Clear and delete everything" and it will be as if you had just taken it out of the box for the first time. This process takes a few hours, though.

Posted by: tivoupgrade

For those who have not experienced this; on all DirecTiVo units (Series1 and Series2) movement of disks between one unit and the other (eg. disk from one HDVR2 to another HDVR2, or from one Sony SAT-T60 to another Sony SAT-T60) will result in a bootable TiVo with DirecTV capabilities, HOWEVER you will immediately receive, when pressing the "TiVo" button, a notice stating "Hardware Error #51" -- you will also notice that your TiVo capabilities will cease to function -- so basically, viewing and recording of programs will not be possible.

As stevel mentioned earlier -- performing a 'clear and delete everything' will 'fix' the problem - and your TiVo will operate normally after go through the guided setup process again.