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I bought a Series 2 Tivo (TCD540040) about 3 yrs ago and immediatly upgraded the HD from the original (40Gb?) to a 160Gb. The 160 is making some good noise now and I want to replace it with a 300 that I have sitting around.
I have read and tried and failed at upgrading this drive (Hinsdale Method). From what I have read here today it seems that I can't preserve the old recordings on the drive, which would explain the errors I was seeing when trying to use mfsbackup.
Is it possible to just try the low level dd command at this point from the 160 to the 300? If I do this do I still need to perform a mfsadd command?
Also will I have to do some type of format on the 300 now that drive has been written to by mfstools when I go try this again.
BTW, I do still have my original HD that came with the Tivo. I stuck it in the Tivo to see if I could upgrade the software and do the dump off that drive instead, but I never did it because the software stayed at 7.1. I tried upgrading the software by running setup again and rebooting, but it never seemed to update, even though I had a sucessful connection to the Tivo Service. My 160 drive is running 9.X, which is why I kept trying to do the backup off that drive.
For ref: I did get the 160 to do a backup, restore it to the 300, use option #2 (season pass...etc no recordings), mfsadd all complete, but the drive would never boot. Just kept looping from Powering up to almost ready to powering up
Thanks,
Unkis
I have read and tried and failed at upgrading this drive (Hinsdale Method). From what I have read here today it seems that I can't preserve the old recordings on the drive, which would explain the errors I was seeing when trying to use mfsbackup.
Is it possible to just try the low level dd command at this point from the 160 to the 300? If I do this do I still need to perform a mfsadd command?
Also will I have to do some type of format on the 300 now that drive has been written to by mfstools when I go try this again.
BTW, I do still have my original HD that came with the Tivo. I stuck it in the Tivo to see if I could upgrade the software and do the dump off that drive instead, but I never did it because the software stayed at 7.1. I tried upgrading the software by running setup again and rebooting, but it never seemed to update, even though I had a sucessful connection to the Tivo Service. My 160 drive is running 9.X, which is why I kept trying to do the backup off that drive.
For ref: I did get the 160 to do a backup, restore it to the 300, use option #2 (season pass...etc no recordings), mfsadd all complete, but the drive would never boot. Just kept looping from Powering up to almost ready to powering up
Thanks,
Unkis
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