TiVo HD upgrade help please?

[Mister_B]

Hi, first to build a little good will for myself. I've upgraded about 25 TiVos for friends and family for free but I haven't done any in years. I was using a Win98 computer that is no longer available.
My TiVo HD is currently using the My DVR expander from WD and reboots constantly. Tivo shipped me a new box and it still happens. Time for a 1 TB drive to replace the internal one I guess.
I just need a little reassurance before my hardware purchases. I am buying the WD10EVCS and two USB/SATA adapters.
Will this allow me to use my new HP laptop running WinXP for the upgrade?
I just noticed 2 SATA connectors on my desktop motherboard, is it worth $40 for the adapters to use the laptop? I'm not transferring recordings.

[classicsat]

If you aren't transferring recordings, you only need one adapter, but you will needs some drive to write a backup image to (<1GB). I think if you use WinMFS, you can write to your Windows drive.

If you can use your desktop system, you don't even need the adapters.

[Mister_B]

I'm going to try it all on the desktop w/out adapters.
Haven't been in a Tivo in years, I'm really dissapointed with the failure of the external My DVR expander. just trying to make the best of a bad situation. thanks, time to print out an upgrade guide. Have to decide which method is best I guess.


If you aren't transferring recordings, you only need one adapter, but you will needs some drive to write a backup image to (<1GB). I think if you use WinMFS, you can write to your Windows drive.

If you can use your desktop system, you don't even need the adapters.