Comments on: Upgrade Your TIVO HD Hard drive

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:42:02 +0000

PS – I did answer “yes” to wanting to use the extra space. Perhaps there is a “correct” sequence?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:35:06 +0000

Hi, I initially viewed your TiVo upgrade video in early July and have been stymied by my results. I’ve tried several times and the most space available it will show is a drive size of 409 (instead of 1241 as shown in your video). I did not copy any programs. I’m quite geeky and all of the rest makes sense, but I don’t understand why I’m not showing the full TB as being available. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m hoping for a Christmas miracle.

Thank you and happy holidays!!!

Lisa

By: steve

steve — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:58:33 +0000

i watched your video. i have a series 2 tivo. i tried what you did on your video about cloning the original hard drive. everything went well until i went to copy on the new hard drive. do you need 3 hard drives in your computer to clone the one for the tivo?

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By: Use2play

Use2play — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:01:05 +0000

Your video is great UP until it talks about cloning the hard drive . . how to attach old drive to computer, how to back it up, all that is ASSUMED, then how to transfer it to the new drive. Doesn’t the original tivo drive have some propriatory software that is needed on the new drive?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:33:21 +0000

I have a TiVo HD 3 that came from TiVo with a 320 HD. Before even plugging it in, I swapped the drive for a 1 TB from Weaknees.

The 1 TB failed after ~18 months. Weaknees’ warranty is 6 months. Western Digital’s is 3 years. They were willing to send me a new 1 TB drive. For a little extra, they sent me a 2 TB drive (otherwise same model).

I saw your U-Tube and this site and downloaded the MFS. I used the virginal 320 drive for the original TiVo files. I had to run through many permutations. I finally did a copy of the 320 to the 2 TB. I told it to expand the extra space AND I turned the Supersize (or whatever it’s called) on. I had also tried the truncated backup and then restoring that. The machine would not boot. At no point did I mix up the two drives.

Now, TiVo boots up and works great, but it seems to believe that it only has a 320 GB drive.

PLEASE HELP.

Thank you and best regards,

Lisa

It would also be great if there was any way to do a light fix on my old HD so that I could copy settings, season passes, or programs.

By: Ant

Ant — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:51:48 +0000

I see that one download is for Australia and the other for the rest of world. Can you advise on New Zealand as we tend to do the same things as Australia.?
Also why or what is the difference in the 2 files?
cheers

By: Chiming

Chiming — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:08:52 +0000

I have DVR from Direc tv, model: R16.
I don’t have enough space on the hard drive to record the show.
I like to upgrade the hard drive.
How can I copy (clone)the old hard drive to new one.
Also, I found sata connector at the back of the receiver Can I just use external hard drive? If I use the external hard drive, will the contents in hard drive (the one inside the receiver)
deleted ?
Please help, thanks

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By: dave

dave — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:29:34 +0000

cool. thanks for sharing…

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:28:04 +0000

Just did this, replacing a stock 160 GB drive with a 1 TB drive via two USB-to-SATA adapters plugged into a Vista laptop.

Three things you MUST do in Vista (and maybe Windows 7) to get this to work smoothly:

– download and run WinMFS in an administrator account

– start up WinMFS by right-clicking and selecting “run as administrator” (different from the step above)

– last but not least, go into Control Panel, select User Accounts, select “Turn User Account Control on or off,” and UNCHECK the box marked “Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer.”

If you don’t do that last one, WinMFS will not be able to see either the original TiVo drive or the replacement drive.

Other than that, WinMFS is a fantastic tool.

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:11:49 +0000

I really want to do this with my Series 3 but i don’t know how you connect the two drives into the computer?

also Victor Bee “Enjoyed watching the video and this article. I am wondering: I have a TiVo approved 500GB expander. Would it be easier to clone the 500GB using a 2TB external drive? What do you think?”

is this a good idea?

I also have windows 7 an according to Rick ” it does run but does not see the drives within winmfs. any suggestion on how to resolve it?”

Now do you have any solutions for this?

Thanks

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By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:08:23 +0000

Great guide! however the software winmfs_beta9_3f does not work in windows 7. it does run but does not see the drives within winmfs. any suggestion on how to resolve it?

Thanks

By: Victor Bee

Victor Bee — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:29:33 +0000

Enjoyed watching the video and this article. I am wondering: I have a TiVo approved 500GB expander. Would it be easier to clone the 500GB using a 2TB external drive? What do you think?

By: Jack Sutton

Jack Sutton — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:06:18 +0000

Hi,

I saw your video on Youtube and wanted to try and install the Hitachi HD. My computer is a 2001 HP and doesn’t use SATA connections. Can I still do an upgrade?

Thanks,

Jack

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:35:07 +0000

Winmfs does not even read I have a hard drive at all.

By: Ryan Clark

Ryan Clark — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:46:41 +0000

When I connect the tivo hard drive it does not allocate a letter for the drive on the plug n play.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:35:10 +0000

Did you say CableCARDs are going extint in the video? That just isn’t the case. You must have at least one in order to watch the encripted digital and HD channels provided by your cable company. If you going purely OTA for your source then you won’t need one.

By: David McKay

David McKay — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:20:34 +0000

Is it any problem to substitute the Hitachi 2TB drive instead of the 1TB drive that you
recommend?