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Ray
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Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:40 am Post subject:
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Has anyone swapped out their hard drive for a larger size on thier dvd
recorder ??
Is it difficult ?? I have installed a second hard drive on a desktop
computer before and was wondering if someone a little tech savvy can tackle
a job like this.
TIA,
Ray
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Ray
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Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:40 am Post subject:
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Thanks for your reply....
I was asking in general terms. I was wondering if by purchasing a dvr with
80gb of storage it could then be increased to 160gb by replacing with a
larger hard drive.
Ray
"Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.wmoe2@burditt.org> wrote in message
news:11kbl4f9arjko10@corp.supernews.com...
| Quote: | Has anyone swapped out their hard drive for a larger size on thier dvd
recorder ??
Is it difficult ?? I have installed a second hard drive on a desktop
computer before and was wondering if someone a little tech savvy can
tackle
a job like this.
I note you didn't say what model of DVR.
The difficult part is copying the software from the old drive to
the new one, if that is required at all. The hard drive is probably
a stock IDE drive and it's very easy to replace the hardware. The
organization of data on the drive is *NOT* guaranteed to be a FAT
or VFAT filesystem. You can't just replace a hard drive with a new
(blank) one and expect a PC to work. It may be a problem with a
DVR, too. A DVR which holds the software in ROM/FLASH and has a
"format hard drive" operation has a better chance of working with
just dropping in a fresh drive, then formatting it with the DVR
firmware.
There are detailed instructions for upgrading various models of
TiVo and it's reasonably straightforward, assuming you have a
computer you can connect the old drive to, copy stuff to the
computer's own drive, then connect the new drive and copy back.
But a lot of work went into the software that does the copying, and
it's very TiVo-specific. There are plenty of other DVR models
for which I have NOT seen any instructions.
Gordon L. Burditt |
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Gordon Burditt
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Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:40 am Post subject:
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| Quote: | Has anyone swapped out their hard drive for a larger size on thier dvd
recorder ??
Is it difficult ?? I have installed a second hard drive on a desktop
computer before and was wondering if someone a little tech savvy can tackle
a job like this.
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I note you didn't say what model of DVR.
The difficult part is copying the software from the old drive to
the new one, if that is required at all. The hard drive is probably
a stock IDE drive and it's very easy to replace the hardware. The
organization of data on the drive is *NOT* guaranteed to be a FAT
or VFAT filesystem. You can't just replace a hard drive with a new
(blank) one and expect a PC to work. It may be a problem with a
DVR, too. A DVR which holds the software in ROM/FLASH and has a
"format hard drive" operation has a better chance of working with
just dropping in a fresh drive, then formatting it with the DVR
firmware.
There are detailed instructions for upgrading various models of
TiVo and it's reasonably straightforward, assuming you have a
computer you can connect the old drive to, copy stuff to the
computer's own drive, then connect the new drive and copy back.
But a lot of work went into the software that does the copying, and
it's very TiVo-specific. There are plenty of other DVR models
for which I have NOT seen any instructions.
Gordon L. Burditt |
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Pete
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Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:44 am Post subject:
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:05:09 -0500, "Ray" <thecarreras@cox.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks for your reply....
I was asking in general terms. I was wondering if by purchasing a dvr with
80gb of storage it could then be increased to 160gb by replacing with a
larger hard drive.
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You can put a 200Gb drive in but the software will only format it to
what ever the drive size was in that unit.
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Ray
"Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.wmoe2@burditt.org> wrote in message
news:11kbl4f9arjko10@corp.supernews.com...
Has anyone swapped out their hard drive for a larger size on thier dvd
recorder ??
Is it difficult ?? I have installed a second hard drive on a desktop
computer before and was wondering if someone a little tech savvy can
tackle
a job like this.
I note you didn't say what model of DVR.
The difficult part is copying the software from the old drive to
the new one, if that is required at all. The hard drive is probably
a stock IDE drive and it's very easy to replace the hardware. The
organization of data on the drive is *NOT* guaranteed to be a FAT
or VFAT filesystem. You can't just replace a hard drive with a new
(blank) one and expect a PC to work. It may be a problem with a
DVR, too. A DVR which holds the software in ROM/FLASH and has a
"format hard drive" operation has a better chance of working with
just dropping in a fresh drive, then formatting it with the DVR
firmware.
There are detailed instructions for upgrading various models of
TiVo and it's reasonably straightforward, assuming you have a
computer you can connect the old drive to, copy stuff to the
computer's own drive, then connect the new drive and copy back.
But a lot of work went into the software that does the copying, and
it's very TiVo-specific. There are plenty of other DVR models
for which I have NOT seen any instructions.
Gordon L. Burditt
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Joe
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Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
Re: DVDR and Hard Drive |
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"Ray" <thecarreras@cox.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Has anyone swapped out their hard drive for a larger size on thier dvd
recorder ??
Is it difficult ?? I have installed a second hard drive on a desktop
computer before and was wondering if someone a little tech savvy can tackle
a job like this.
TIA,
Ray
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I think it's called BACK-UP but _ haven't done any backup for over a
decade now.. The last time I did was on floppies that I never had the chance
to restore, then spent almost $2,000 on the SCSI 8GB (?) backup tape, and
never had the chance to restore either.
And I read Windows 98 has option/util to backup different devices
(including CD), and I read newer programs mention backing up to CD/DVD etc.
but never tried any. I believe Nero has the option (I am Nero user but
don't pay much attention to other products). |
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Gene E. Bloch
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:51 am Post subject:
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You say are asking in general terms, but the answer is device
specific.
HTH,
Gino
"Ray" <thecarreras@cox.net> wrote in
news:zAk1f.2602$xE1.569@okepread07:
| Quote: | Thanks for your reply....
I was asking in general terms. I was wondering if by purchasing a
dvr with 80gb of storage it could then be increased to 160gb by
replacing with a larger hard drive.
Ray
"Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.wmoe2@burditt.org> wrote in message
news:11kbl4f9arjko10@corp.supernews.com...
Has anyone swapped out their hard drive for a larger size on
thier dvd recorder ??
Is it difficult ?? I have installed a second hard drive on a
desktop computer before and was wondering if someone a little
tech savvy can
tackle
a job like this.
I note you didn't say what model of DVR.
The difficult part is copying the software from the old drive to
the new one, if that is required at all. The hard drive is
probably a stock IDE drive and it's very easy to replace the
hardware. The organization of data on the drive is *NOT*
guaranteed to be a FAT or VFAT filesystem. You can't just
replace a hard drive with a new (blank) one and expect a PC to
work. It may be a problem with a DVR, too. A DVR which holds
the software in ROM/FLASH and has a "format hard drive" operation
has a better chance of working with just dropping in a fresh
drive, then formatting it with the DVR firmware.
There are detailed instructions for upgrading various models of
TiVo and it's reasonably straightforward, assuming you have a
computer you can connect the old drive to, copy stuff to the
computer's own drive, then connect the new drive and copy back.
But a lot of work went into the software that does the copying,
and it's very TiVo-specific. There are plenty of other DVR
models for which I have NOT seen any instructions.
Gordon L. Burditt
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Bulletsnbrains
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Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:25 am Post subject:
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"Pete" <Pete@nowhere.nospam> wrote in message
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[quote]On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:05:09 -0500, "Ray" <thecarreras@cox.net> wrote:
You can put a 200Gb drive in but the software will only format it to
what ever the drive size was in that unit.
[/quote]
Pete,
You are wrong on the above statement. You might be remembering that Tivo
locked the hard drives on some. There is an un-lock tool to overcome this.
The Tivo I have came with a 40 Gig Hard Drive and I swapped in a new 120Gig
unit. The old drive gave me upto 35Hrs recording time.The new drive gives me
up to 105Hrs time now.
To the original OP... Check out the newsgroup alt.video.pvt.tivo and they
can point you to the "Hinsdale How To" and the MFS Tools software to
acomplish these tasks.
Luck,
Brian |
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