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I have a TiVo HD with a 1TB MyDVR Expander AV.
Recently it has started freezing and rebooting on me. I poked around with Kickstart 54, and found that /dev/hda failed the extended SMART test (FAIL 7 ?) But all the other tests completed. Not sure how bad that is, except that it still boots and runs for a while.
So, I'm trying to watch as much as possible off of it. Though it was only last summer where I replaced the 500G external with the 1TB.
I tried Kickstart 57 and 52 to see if that would help any. It didn't.
Thinking that I would just buy a 160G (looks like only as an upgrade kit on here) and copy as much as possible from the old drive to the new one. Will that make it so that I don't lose settings or cable card pairings (and most of my shows)?
I had replaced another machine under warranty, was a real pain trying to get cablecard re-paired...so want to avoid having to do that if I at all possible.
I think I can get into the process, even though until now I haven't done anything like this to any of my TiVos....but I had done drive replacements and upgrades on my ReplayTVs. Though haven't investigated resurrecting my 5080 with lifetime service (had upped it to 250)....the 5580 is still humming along on the 300G drive in it. But, haven't found anything (yet) on 'upgrading' a TiVo HD with an external drive, and just the internal to a same size drive.
All my TiVos have lifetime service....
Recently it has started freezing and rebooting on me. I poked around with Kickstart 54, and found that /dev/hda failed the extended SMART test (FAIL 7 ?) But all the other tests completed. Not sure how bad that is, except that it still boots and runs for a while.
So, I'm trying to watch as much as possible off of it. Though it was only last summer where I replaced the 500G external with the 1TB.
I tried Kickstart 57 and 52 to see if that would help any. It didn't.
Thinking that I would just buy a 160G (looks like only as an upgrade kit on here) and copy as much as possible from the old drive to the new one. Will that make it so that I don't lose settings or cable card pairings (and most of my shows)?
I had replaced another machine under warranty, was a real pain trying to get cablecard re-paired...so want to avoid having to do that if I at all possible.
I think I can get into the process, even though until now I haven't done anything like this to any of my TiVos....but I had done drive replacements and upgrades on my ReplayTVs. Though haven't investigated resurrecting my 5080 with lifetime service (had upped it to 250)....the 5580 is still humming along on the 300G drive in it. But, haven't found anything (yet) on 'upgrading' a TiVo HD with an external drive, and just the internal to a same size drive.
All my TiVos have lifetime service....
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