Upgrade question

[mehm]

Will the weaknees boot CD work on a Tivo drive that has already been upgraded? I have an upgraded tivo with a 120GB drive in it. After almost 2 years, I want to upgrade it again to a 300GB drive. I saw in the instructions that it will work on a stock TIVO only, does that mean not upgraded? The restore fails if I try to do the upgrade from the 120GB drive. It works fine though if I use the original 60GB drive. The error message I get says that the target drive is not large enough for the entire backup. Again, it works for the original 60GB drive.

Thanks
-MEHM

[funtoupgrade]

You are correct and your testing has proved this out - one upgrade only.

[jeff92k7]

You can do the upgrade to the 300GB drive if you use the original 60GB drive as the source. At least that's the way that I understand it. You can not do an upgrade from an upgrade. If you want to save shows, you'll need to transfer them to another tivo or a computer using tivotogo then upgrade, then copy the shows back.

Jeff

[mehm]

Thanks everyone, you have all saved me many hours of frustration! My upgrade went smoothly from the 60GB drive to the 250GB, and I am now the proud owner of a 290 hour Tivo! One more upgrade to go! (Installing a 300GB drive in my 40HR too!)

-MEHM

[astrose00]

I was able to upgrade from an upgrade, if I understand this thread. I had an original 40r AT&T series2 model. Upgraded with a 120 and 80 GB hard drive set. Then earlier, this week I upgraded to two 200GBs. Problem was that it didn't recognize the full capacity. Only 322 hrs for two 200s, although in Tivo it said I had 339 hours. Took it out, tried to redo it and also increase the swap and now nothing works! I put back in the old A+B and they work fine (for now since the A is dying) so I know it's not the actual unit that is the problem. Both 200s were brand new. I have no idea what I did to get it to work in the first place and now I can't get it to work again.

Now I am searching for an image for my original so maybe that will work. I guess I just got lucky?