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Advice on fixing Sister's Tivo
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Posted by: Endymion

My sister has an out of warranty unmodified Sony Series 1. Recently it has been freezing and locking up often and now can't even be run for even a short time without lockup.

I believe the most likely explanation is that the hard drive has died. I plan to replace it for her.

I have an identical model Tivo but modded by the addition of a second hard drive.

I need some guidance these questions:

0) Should I check something else out before assuming it's the drive? I have a spare harddrive available to try fixing the machine with so I won't be out any money to try the new hard drive.

1) Am I likely to be able to image a clean version of the 3.0 software from her old drive onto the new drive? How about any of her saved programs?

2) If I need to use my Tivo drive as the source for her new harddrive, will I have problems since I've married a second drive to my primary drive? How do I deal with this?

3) I plan to replace her drive with a much bigger drive. In imaging from either her old drive or my drive will I run into the problem that Tivo will only see the size of the old image on the new larger drive? If so, is there a way around this?

4) What is the recommended tivo utility software to use for this task?

Thanks for any help.

Posted by: Endymion

I believe I should have posted my questions in the upgrade forum, sorry.

It looks like mfstools 2.0 will address questions 2, 3 and 4. I can create a minimal "divorced" backup file and then restore it to the new hard drive and the size issues should get taken care of. I must be careful to use -s 127 instead of -s 128 to avoid GSOD problems. Is this correct?