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Maxtor 120Gb -> Samsung 120Gb?
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Posted by: jwixted

Hello, all!

My HDVR2 currently has a pair of Maxtor 120Gb 7200RPM drives in it, working great (except for those transparent backgrounds, but that's another thread).

My wife thinks the Maxtor's are too noisy - clicking and all that. I've purchased a couple of the Samsung 5400RPM drives to replace the Maxtor's but, after hooking them up and preparing to use Option #2 in Hinsdale's how-to guide, I see that the Samsungs are a touch smaller than the Maxtor's.

Anyone know how I can either shrink the restore to fit on the smaller drives, or create a single-file backup (like I did when I moved from the 40Gb to the 120's) that can be restored to the smaller drives?

Posted by: plindner

Did you use the amset utility? It drasticly reduces the seek noise when you use the /quiet flag.

Basic procedure is:

* download amset util, write to floppy
* boot pc with drives attached
* run amset /quiet
* enjoy

Posted by: jwixted

Yes, I did. That did cut the noise some, but it's still a bit loud...

Posted by: Chris Gerhard

I ran into the slightly smaller drive problem once and could not copy the drive to the slightly smaller drive. You can just restore and image to your new drives and of course lose all recordings and settings. Although I haven't done it, you should be able to take the A drive and make an image of that and restore to your new 2 drive set up simultaneously using the standard mfsrestore and expand command. I could be wrong of course.

Chris

Posted by: jwixted

I've already got two 120Gb drives, so the A drive restore option won't work for me. Option #2 has steps for copying A to A, then B to B, which I was hoping would work (but my gut tells me it won't, even if the new drives were larger).

Posted by: Robert S

It would work if the drives weren't smaller. You can steal a few Mb off the swap and var partition to make the A drive image smaller, but I think you need something like 2Gb for this one, which is too much. The B drive can't be shrunk at all.

You don't have to lose your settings, of course, just make a fresh backup from the current drive set, but you can't copy the recordings.

Posted by: jwixted

Well then! I guess the wife lives with the noise, or lives without the recordings! Thanks for your input gang!

Posted by: paulc

I'm not sure (yet) exactly what fstype tivo is using, but if it is an fstype supported by Partition Magic, would that work to resize your partitions?

The only potential problem I see is if the size is written to a file somewhere... such that the tivo would freak about about the part being smaller, but that is doubtful.

-P

Posted by: Robert S

Partition Magic will not help you here.