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Please help! Anyone in or near Orange County, CA!
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Posted by: designbot

Is there anyone in the OC or vicinity who can lend me a hand? The hard drive on my DirecTiVo has gone all whiny, and the noise is driving me nuts. Trouble is, I'm a Mac guy, and I don't have a Windows PC to do all the technical mumbo-jumbo necessary to replace the hard drive. I'd like to install drivers for my Airnet card at the same time.

Is there anyone near Fullerton, CA who'd be kind enough to let me use their computer for half an hour or so (or do it for me)? I can come to your house or whatever. I've been considering buying an El Cheapo computer just for this, but it seems like a waste of space & money.

Anyone?

Posted by: Piggers

If you want to buy a computer just for this purpose then that would be a waist. Especially if you are a mac person. I would consider having one of the companies above do it for you.

What kind of unit do you have?

Posted by: designbot

I've got a Series 1 DirecTV receiver (DSR6000, 35-hour). What companies are you referring to?

Posted by: Piggers

www.weakness.com is one of them. They are all at the top of the page. Look at the small banners.

Posted by: Robert S

He means the upgrade shops that sponsor the Forum. They'll sell you a drive with all the software installed.

You should be able to use dd to clone the disk (assuming you're runing OSX and have IDE ports in your Mac), which would let you replace the drive with a quieter one, although you wouldn't be able to use the spare space on the new one.

Posted by: designbot

I hadn't thought of just duplicating the disk. Would dd copy all the necessary formatting and everything? Would I need three hard drives hooked up (the Mac OS X boot disk, the TiVo disk, and the new blank disk)?

That would be worth it just to take care of the noise, but I'd still like to be able to use my AirNet card (I don't have a land line).

Posted by: Robert S

Yes, if you use dd on the raw disk devices (hdb, whatever), it copies the entire contents of the disk.

There would be nothing to stop you expanding the drive and installing AirNet later (drive duplicating like this is a common upgrade technique).

Posted by: Supevisor

I live in Downey and work in Irvine so I am not too far away from you, What model of tivo are you trying to upgrade?

Posted by: designbot

It's a DSR6000 DirecTiVo.

Posted by: designbot

So, Supevisor, do you think you can help me out?

Posted by: nysteelo

I'm in Long Beach, so if Supevisor can't help you out let me know.

Posted by: Deja-vue

Hey, i am in Long Beach as well, i can copy anything.
Let me know if i can help.
:)

Posted by: designbot

I haven't heard back from Supevisor, so I think one of you Long Beach folks would be the closest. How do you want to work this out?

Posted by: Deja-vue

PM me.
:up:

Posted by: nysteelo

Same here...PM me.

Posted by: designbot

Thanks, everybody, for offering to help! I knew the TiVo community could come through for me. Deja-vue is going to help me out.

Posted by: Deja-vue

....and...? working?
let us know.
;)

Posted by: designbot

Thanks to the valiant assistance of Deja-Vue, my TiVo is up and running smoothly, with 4 times the space and none of the sound. I can even telnet in wirelessly! Big thanks to Deja-Vue, and the TiVo Community Forum!

Posted by: flyguy42

Hey! I live in Fullerton too! I bit late though Im afraid.