Please Help the New Guy :)

[Steevo396]

Hello all, I just joined this forum. I am about average with computers so please dumb it down for me if you can. I have a Pioneer 810hs Tivo. I purchased a new higher capacity hard drive off of ebay a few months ago (The company is no longer in business). It was a maxtor 320G. I sent out my original hard drive to them and they copied my programs on to the new drive. I installed the new drive and everything worked great. Unfortunatley as I fill this new drive my Tivo is telling me that I don't have enough space on the drive to record new programs. The new drive has much more capacity so I know it cannot be full. I am assuming my Tivo machine still thinks it has the old drive's capacity and is not recognizing the new one. Does anyone know if I am able to fix this issue. I would appreciate any help I can get.

Steve

[windracer]

First thing to check would be the System Information screen (under Messages and Settings). It will show your current recording capacity there.

Next, are you marking a lot of shows "Keep Until I Delete" (KUID, i.e., the green dot)? If so, that affects how the TiVo calculates free space for future recordings and usually has the effect you are describing.

[Steevo396]

Thank you for your reply. I have checked the recording capacity under System Information. It shows the same capacities I had before I installed the new drive. I assumed that when I installed the new , larger, drive the System Info capacities would increase accordingly. And, yes, of the 50+ hours of recorded programs, all of them are marked KUID. How does one get the Pioneer to recognize it now has a larger drive?

[ttodd1]

sounds like they copied everything to the new drive but did not expand it.

[unclemoosh]

How does one get the Pioneer to recognize it now has a larger drive?

You're going to have to pull the drive and run mfsadd to expand the drive.

[stamasd]

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html

[the new guy]

Thanks, but I really don't need any help. Really, I'm fine. I appreciate your concern, though.:D

...maybe I should think about changing my user name...