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My compliments, my story
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Posted by: kkluba

These forums are a god send. Robert S is a guru par excellence, he really knows his stuff.

I have had my Tivo for nearly two years (Sony SVR-2000). About 16 months ago I did a 9th tee 80gb upgrade. I stuck it in and presto my capacity was tripled. Last week my system crashed and after opening the box I found the 80gb B drive had died.

I started with Tivo and Sony not mentioning my upgrade. Sony wanted $150 and two weeks to fix it. I learned here in the forums they probably would have not touched it once they saw the box had been opened.

I was given links in the forums here to dealers that will handle a situation like this for me. They would have needed a week and $200+ to fix it.

I finally figured out the way to go. I found a backup image,(cough, cough) restored it to my original drive and got my Tivo functional again. I updated my original 30gb drive/system to the latest Tivo version (3.01???) and verified it's stability. I then dumped this image to a backup (go mfstools 2.0).

After getting back to square one I went to local hardware shop and bought a 120gb Maxtor drive, restored my latest image to it and I now have a reported 133 hours of recording time. My menus are faster than they have ever been. All for under $200 and with 1 day downtime.

Robert S and others are incredible resources here and I can't thank everyone enough. I was able to search and find answers to almost all questions in the forums. My Linux skills are weak but it obviously didn't matter - anyone can do it.

Thanks again..