New Drive Space Not Recognized [Text View]

KLFLoyd

10-04-2008, 08:42 PM

We have an 80 hour Humax with DVD Recorder and the hard drive was on the fritz. Bought a 320GB drive from BestBuy and used a program called CopyCatX on Mac OS X to make a duplicate of the old 80GB drive to the new 320GB drive.

CopyCatX is a program that claims to make a sector by sector duplicate of a drive and then used some "magic" to extend the partition of a larger drive to give you the maximum space available. It specifically states that it works with TiVo drives. Sounded perfect.

The duplication process went off without a hitch, the new drive is being recognized in the TiVo and all our shows and settings came over perfectly. Problem is, the TiVo doesn't recognize the 320GB drive and thinks it still has the old 80GB drive installed.

Any ideas what I can do to make the TiVo recognize the new space? I've tried a few google searches for CopyCatX and Tivo and can't find anything specific.

I appreciate your help!

HomeUser

10-04-2008, 10:10 PM

Like most "sector by sector" clone programs it only copies the drive sector by sector and cannot expand or modify the drive. To be sure you need to contact CopyCatX

SubRosaSoft CopyCatX (http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=7)Cross Platform Device Copy allows Microsoft Windows, Tivo, and Linux drives to be cloned using a Mac.

Still waiting for someone to post the results of running one of the Linux based MFSTools boot CD's using the Intel based Apple platform. Or you could try WinMFS (http://mfslive.com) in Boot Camp.

rbtravis

10-04-2008, 11:41 PM

Use the MFSlive1.3b.iso CD. boot from that and use MFSadd to expand :)

HomeUser

10-05-2008, 02:44 PM

Use the MFSlive1.3b.iso CD. boot from that and use MFSadd to expand :) Do you know if the MFSLIve CD will boot on a MAC?

rbtravis

10-05-2008, 06:33 PM

It should, the hardware is identical, all they are doing is booting linux, instead of a modified bsd unix. :)

SiPaolo

10-07-2008, 02:49 AM

Living in a non-PC household I recently upgraded my S3 using my imac, and some external usb sata enclosures with the MFSTools CD iso, and VMware Fusion. IT was painless, but took overnight to transfer the 250gb original disk to the new terabyte drive.

I would highly recommend it. Here is a link that gave me faith. I did not follow this to the letter, but basically the same. The VMWare fusion works well in trial mode to test it out.
http://www.wingedpower.com/blog/wwong/upgrading-tivo-your-macbook-pro-intel-and-vmware-s-fusion

HomeUser

10-07-2008, 09:32 AM

Living in a non-PC household I recently upgraded my S3 using my imac, and some external usb sata enclosures with the MFSTools CD iso, and VMware Fusion. IT was painless, but took overnight to transfer the 250gb original disk to the new terabyte drive.

I would highly recommend it. Here is a link that gave me faith. I did not follow this to the letter, but basically the same. The VMWare fusion works well in trial mode to test it out.
http://www.wingedpower.com/blog/wwong/upgrading-tivo-your-macbook-pro-intel-and-vmware-s-fusion Thanks for the confirmation and the Link.