JTAnderson
03-18-2006, 04:45 PM
I'm trying to upgrade my HR10-250 from a single 300 GB drive to a single 500 GB drive. When I tried to do the copy mfsrestore failed with the message "Backup target not large enough for the entire backup by itself."
A little research here led me to the conclusion that I had hit the limit on the number of partitions. So, I went back and tried again without saving the recorded programs. This succeeded.
There do appear to be 15 or 16 partitions on each of the drives. Mfsinfo says the drive can be upgraded 3 more times, but I've read that this information is not reliable.
Anyway, is there something that I have missed that would allow me to upgrade and preserve my recordings or do I need to go on a TV watching binge?
(As an aside, wasn't there a program, other than mfsinfo, that would display information about the partitions on a TiVo drive? I think the name started with a "p". Maybe this program is not on the weaknees LBA48 boot disk.)
A little research here led me to the conclusion that I had hit the limit on the number of partitions. So, I went back and tried again without saving the recorded programs. This succeeded.
There do appear to be 15 or 16 partitions on each of the drives. Mfsinfo says the drive can be upgraded 3 more times, but I've read that this information is not reliable.
Anyway, is there something that I have missed that would allow me to upgrade and preserve my recordings or do I need to go on a TV watching binge?
(As an aside, wasn't there a program, other than mfsinfo, that would display information about the partitions on a TiVo drive? I think the name started with a "p". Maybe this program is not on the weaknees LBA48 boot disk.)