Anything that copies 2 Tivo disks to 1 disk?

[Doomster]

I have several Hughes DirecTivo receivers. The two oldest ones were upgraded using Weaknees upgrade kits, which replaced the 40Gb HD with 2 x 120Gb HDs. That boosted my recording capacity but split the storage to 2 HDs.

One of the two with the 2 HDs is having problems (the LiveTV recording locks up and the receiver becomes impervious to commands). I shut this one down.

The other one is on its last legs. I hear the whirling of one of the HDs and there are certain shows/movies that cause the receiver to reboot when I play it.

I think the hard drives are failing after 5+ years in constant use so I need to replace them.

I need to find a way to copy the shows onto a newer HD (say 1 400Gb HD). Problem is, I need a tool that copies from 2 HDs to 1. I've already looked into MFSLive and it doesn't support that configuration. Are there others that can combine the contents of a dual-disk Tivo HD into one?

[BTUx9]

Actually, MFSLive (which uses mfstools) SHOULD support that, but because of limitations on the number of media partitions, it's unlikely to do what you want

Depending on what type of tivo you have, your best bet may be to hack it and use MRV, mfs_ftp, or some other method to offload your shows... there's also a utility in the unified MFS binaries called mfs_tmfstream that would allow you to extract to a drive in a PC.

If your tivo is unhacked, your existing recordings are encrypted, so they would only be watchable on the tivo they came from (except if you used MRV), and only if you used mfsbackup/restore to xfer your current setup (sans recordings) to your new, larger disk (not the ONLY way, because it is possible to xfer the HD crypto key, but it requires more knowledge, and there are no nice howtos on the method)

[captain_video]

You should be able to copy a dual drive setup to a single drive using the instructions outlined in Hinsdale's How To. The target drive would have to be at least as big as the combined capacity of the two individual drives or you won't be able to copy the contents to the new drive. Any of the MFSTools boot CDs should be able to handle this for you. You'd probably need to use the MFSLive boot CD in order to be able to expand the partitions a 2nd time to fill a 400GB drive.

[BTUx9]

You should be able to copy a dual drive setup to a single drive using the instructions outlined in Hinsdale's How To. The target drive would have to be at least as big as the combined capacity of the two individual drives or you won't be able to copy the contents to the new drive. Any of the MFSTools boot CDs should be able to handle this for you. You'd probably need to use the MFSLive boot CD in order to be able to expand the partitions a 2nd time to fill a 400GB drive.umm... it seems to me that it's quite likely the A drive already has 3 mfs partition sets, meaning he couldn't backup to a single drive... even if it has only 2, he'd then be unable to expand to fill the new, larger drive (unless he used the partition merging, which can be risky)

that's why I said it the way I did