newbie hard drive ? on upgrade and more

[spacedoggy]

I bought my Sony SVR 2000 from my son when he worked for tweeter. I got the lifetime TV Guide and the unit has broken down on me six times. It was fixed for free due to my sons empolyement and seemed to all be hard drive problems. We moved and it has been in a box for two years and I took it out and hooked it up. Seemed to be working and I had to redo everything and while it stated "this might take an hour" five hours later I unpluged it due to heat. No more free service for me so I opened it up. I then hooked it up as a slave and nothing was on it. I did some research and learned the lifetime is good with the serial number. I plan on using the InstantCake but how do I tell what series I have? What format should the drive be in Fat 32 or ntsf?? The bigger the hard drive does that give me more recording room i would think so but never know? I'll list the question i have again since I was a bit chatty.
1. How do I tell what series I have?
2. What format should the drive be in?
3. Is instantCake a good product?
4. does bigger mean more recordering space?

Thank you in advance
Spacedoggy

[jjberger2134]

1. You have a Series I (One). Why does this matter? Just select sony then SVR-2000 from the instant cake main page.
2. (Instant Cake will take care of all of this). You do need a PATA drive, not a SATA.
3. Yes
4. Yes (300GB drive will yield approx. 325hrs at basic and 80 hrs. at best).

If your Lifetime TiVo has been sitting idle for 2 years, chances are TiVo has assumed it is dead. You will need to have it connect and/or you may need to contact customer service to restore the lifetime service.

[spacedoggy]

Your a good person to take the time out of your day to help a stranger, I don't even care about what they say about you.lol

Thanks agian and I got it up and running.