Dead HR10-250 - can I copy the drive from another

[bjm051593]

I have 2 HR10-250's, one appears to have a dead hard drive.

Can I take the drive out of the good one, clone it and put the clone in the bad box and have it work ok? (after deleting, resetting everything when I put it in the box)?

And the real question, can I use something off the ultimate boot CD to clone it, or do I have to use "tivo specific" tools?

Thanks,
Brian

[stevel]

Yes, you can do this. I don't know what "ultimate boot CD" is, but I recommend MFSlive (http://www.mfslive.org/)for this purpose.

When you boot with the copied drive, you'll need to do a Clear and Delete Everything, otherwise you'll get Error #51. (According to MFSlive, if you use WinMFS and "mfscopy", you can skip this step, though of course no recordings are copied.)

[bjm051593]

Thanks Steve...

So poking around the closet I discovered that the largest IDE drive I have is 200G, so I'm guessing that mfslive (or any cloning program for that matter) won't copy the 250G drive to the 200G drive - is that correct?

B-

[litzdog911]

Your replacement drive must be AT LEAST the same capacity as the original drive. It cannot be smaller.

[Matt L]

And a caveat to what litzdog911 said, even if the drive states it's the same size, if it's not the same model it could be off by a small amount and it won't work either if you are copying from another TiVo. It is no problem with this method if it's larger.

I would suggest just downloading the software, if you dig you can find it free, or you can simply buy it too, then you won't have any problems.

[tucsonbill]

Your replacement drive must be AT LEAST the same capacity as the original drive. It cannot be smaller.I hesitated long and hard because of who posted this, but I do believe that I have restored an image from a 300 gb drive to a 250 gb drive. You need to research what the various switches in the tools do, but I do think it's possible. Now if you want to copy recordings from the first drive to the second -- that's another questions.

[CrashHD]

Instantcake will work on it, even though it is smaller than the original drive.

[Matt L]

Yes, If you do a FRESH install. However, if you want to COPY the drive it must be exactly the same size or bigger, if it's just a few bytes smaller it won't work.

[tucsonbill]

Yes, If you do a FRESH install. However, if you want to COPY the drive it must be exactly the same size or bigger, if it's just a few bytes smaller it won't work.Depends on what you mean by "copy". You can certainly create an image with mfs backup and restore to another drive of a different size. The OP doesn't want to copy the recodings on his working box, he just wants to get the second one working without paying someont $20 for an image. The answer is yes, it can be done. The OP needs to look at the tivo underground or other forums for how to.