- DVDR and Hard Drive
- Posted by Ray on October 7th, 2005
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
- Posted by Gordon Burditt on October 7th, 2005
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
- Posted by Ray on October 7th, 2005
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
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- Posted by Pete on October 7th, 2005
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.
- Posted by Gene E. Bloch on October 10th, 2005
You say are asking in general terms, but the answer is device
specific.
HTH,
Gino
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- Posted by Bulletsnbrains on October 11th, 2005
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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
