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    Reuse Upgrade Drive Again?

    In the past, I purchased an RCA DVR40 TiVo Upgrade Kit to add a second drive (160gb) hard drive. This increased my space in my DVR40 to over 170 hrs just like I wanted. Recently, my DVR40 has died Directv no longer offers the RCA DVR40 so they are sending the R10 model.

    Can I use the "used" secondary 160gb drive to extend the R10 space? Is there some sort of formatting I need to apply to it first or will this be take care of automatically?

    I will be researching the forums on this topic but I wanted to get some feedback from the experts as well.

    Thanks!!!
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    Are you sure you're getting an R10 and not an R15? They claim they aren't sending out R10s anymore . . .

    Anyway, you'd need to freshly format the drive to get it to work in the other unit.

    What's wrong with this unit?
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      Yes. They already send me an R10 last week that was DOA. I should know today of the seconrd replacement is the expected R10 and then I should be able to do what I want.

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      • #4
        OK - you'll still need to reformat the add-on drive.
        Been here a long time . . .

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        • #5
          Thanks. For the second replacement they sent me an R15. After a week and a half I ended up missing recordings as they just stopped after 10-12 mins for no apparent reason and the unit reboot twice on me during normal operation. I had all the latest software updates from them to - I figured this model would be getting stable by now....this is worse then Windows ME (HA!)

          Anyhow, I ended up instacaking two new drives after testing my original and the WK upgrade I ahve had for a few years. The maxtor was clicking away and was apparently bad.

          I deactivated the R15 and the RCA DirecTIVO LIVES AGAIN! If I had known it would be this easy to do I would have skipped all the headaches.

          Thanks for the suggests that WK can offer!!!!!

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          • #6
            Glad you're up and running again!
            Been here a long time . . .

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