Newbie needs help with zippering HR10-250

[f13dfx]

Okay, I've read the Zipper how-to guide (http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html) a few times over and have some questions before I dive into it:

1. Was wondering if I could backup my original 250GB HD on to my WinXP Pro SP2 NTFS drive by using Partition Magic to create a FAT32 partition for backing up my Tivo's drive. How large does the partition have to be?

2. If I'm only going to zipper my original drive, do I still need the InstantCake 3.1.5f image on my Tools CD or can I skip that alltogether? It would save me $20 :)

3. My primary goal for Zippering is that I would like to archive my HD recordings on to my PC. Is the Zipper the best way to do it?

Thanks in advance for those who reply. :up:

[rbautch]

1. Partion Magic will work fine (I love PM). The size depends on if you are going to backup recordings. If not, 1 gig should do it, just to be save.

2. Skip instantcake.

3. Yes! Then check out mfs_ftp on DDB.