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A/B Expansion Question
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Posted by: bmulhaire

Just purchased over the internet a new 60G A Drive. I have an 80G drive at home ready to Bless as a B. I plan to back up the A to my computer before booting on Tivo using Mfs Tools. Question I have is Should I just bless the B and boot with the new A in Tivo or should I use TivoMad and bless the B in my computer along with the new A before booting up? (I have no idea if the A I purchase was expanded using TivoMad or not.) Also when installing the MFS Tools in root directory. Is root directory automatically the C: or is it something else, I have Windows XP? (Feel stupid asking this one.)

Posted by: weaknees

If you purchased a 60gb TiVo upgrade drive, then it probably already had TiVoMad run on it. To test the theory, put the drive you purchased in your TiVo. If it registers as 70 (or so) hours, then the seller already ran TiVoMad and you CANNOT bless the 80gb drive and add it.

Solution: Backup the 60gb drive using MFStool. Restore the backup onto your 80gb drive. Test the 80gb drive in the TiVo to be sure that the backup worked. If it did, restore the backup onto the 60gb drive. Install both the 60 and the 80 into your PC and run TiVoMad. You should now have a 60/80 A&B.

Good luck!
Michael

Posted by: hancocks

Additional expansion question:

I was unable to fully understand what the Hinsdale doc. said on this, so here goes...

- Bought 14-hr. standalone Philips
- dd'd the A drive to 80GB drive, then expanded. Worked like a charm. Put orig. A drive on shelf (oh, yeah, I backed it up first anyway...:-))

- Now, purchased additional 80GB drive.

Here's the question: Can I expand by adding a B drive thru the usual listed methods and retain my already-recorded programs, or is there some sort of gotcha here?

Muy thanks,

- Stu