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    Hard drive on last leg--can I rescue recorded content?

    I have a DirecTivo Samsung SIR-S4080R and it has frozen up twice. Looks like a bad hard drive. I had to pull the power cable to get it to respond to me. After it rebooted it managed to continue running and taped a 2 hour show, but later froze up again. I've got it unplugged now. Assuming it's got several hours of life left in it,

    (1) Is it possible to buy a new hard drive from weaKness and transfer my shows to the new drive? I work in IT and would like to do this without having to ship it to have it done (if it's posssible). NOTE: This unit has only one drive in it--it's the original one. Is cloning the drive or copying the recorded content to my PC an option?

    (2) If it's possible, what kit or things do I need to buy. I'll glady pay to get the drive that's ready to go with TIVO software. Please be specific and then I'll order these items.

    (3) Can you provide a link to the instructions I'll need?

    Many Thanks.
    Last edited by MyUsername4ThisSite; 03-22-2009, 01:51 AM.
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    1 - We can do the transfer (or at least attempt it). If you want to do it, we have some instructions here:

    http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com

    2 - We sell the bare DVR-specific hard drives, the tools, and any other parts:

    http://www.weaknees.com/
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      Invalid Link

      This link you reference does not seem to be valid. Can you verify?
      http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com

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      • #4
        It's working for me.

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          Be patient with me if you would. I've spent a lot of time looking through the forum and on Google and I still have some questions.

          Is it as easy as purchasing the bare DVR-specific hard drive (160GB-PATA) from weaKnees and using the Linux DD command to clone my old hard drive (80GB-PATA) and then put the drive back in the DVR? Are there post-cloning tasks that I will need to do as well before the drive will work? Are your interactive Tivo upgrade instructions necessary for me if I'm going to clone the old drive?

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          • #6
            You'll also need to expand to get the extra space.

            If you want to go that route, see the info here:

            http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/
            Been here a long time . . .

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