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twiens
11-21-2006, 05:07 PM
What is needed to do a drive image of a tivo drive?
classicsat
11-21-2006, 06:43 PM
MFStools.
wscannell
11-21-2006, 08:00 PM
Use these instructions: http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php
bozo8787
11-24-2006, 07:42 AM
What is needed to do a drive image of a tivo drive?
Please keep us posted if you had success or not.
twiens
11-29-2006, 11:58 AM
Thanks for the info. This worked very well.
JoshFink
11-29-2006, 12:49 PM
I have 3 DSR6000's and I would like to copy the image from one to the other two. Can someone point me in the right direction? I assumed I could pull the good drive and put it in the computer. Put the new drive for the DSR6000 in and basically copy one to the other.

Thanks

Josh
wscannell
11-29-2006, 10:14 PM
You can do this. See the instructions posted earlier. You will need to do a "Clear and Delete Everything" once you install the drive in another TiVo. Then you will run guided setup. This is necessary to match the TiVo to the new box.
russwjohns
12-17-2006, 03:20 AM
Josh: How large was the image file your created? Or were you simply able to copy the hd to the others?
JoshFink
12-17-2006, 09:57 AM
I copied one to another with MFSTools
ThreeSoFar
12-17-2006, 10:25 AM
Josh: How large was the image file your created? Or were you simply able to copy the hd to the others?
I tried a backup before I did my disk-to-disk (-f9999 ... -Tao) upgrade. The .bak image got to 1.3G before my destination drive ran out of space, so I skipped it for now, until I get a bigger data drive in the old PC I use for upgrades.
wscannell
12-17-2006, 10:44 AM
You cannot back up with recordings to a FAT32 drive because of the file size limitation of FAT32. A backup of the system is usually less than 1 GB.
ThreeSoFar
12-17-2006, 11:09 AM
You cannot back up with recordings to a FAT32 drive because of the file size limitation of FAT32. A backup of the system is usually less than 1 GB.
File size got bigger than 1G. Then the file system filled up.

Max file size for FAT32 is 4G.

Oh--no, I didn't try to -Tao to the .bak file. That was the usual -6so backup mathod.
sk33t3r
12-17-2006, 10:02 PM
I made imagesusing mfsbackup, of all my tivo's before I did anything to them.
ThreeSoFar
12-17-2006, 11:10 PM
I made imagesusing mfsbackup, of all my tivo's before I did anything to them.
Oh, I will at some point. The original drive is still sitting there as it was.

Meanwhile, my -Tao upgrade, my ultimate goal anyway, is spinning nicely at double the capacity.
luder
12-18-2006, 05:43 AM
You cannot back up with recordings to a FAT32 drive because of the file size limitation of FAT32. A backup of the system is usually less than 1 GB.

Just like using Weakness MFSToolS..

I don't think you can run compressed data in the tivo .. they like them fat and juicy .. can you pass the A1 sauce!

I don't think anyone here can pass my Hacked 28 hr dvr I got this puppy converted to a RCA DSR 7 inch rims nah who wants some....


The sad part is i 'm not kiddin
That's weakness for you