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fidget13a
12-28-2008, 12:54 PM
Is there an"easy" way to upgrade the internall drive to a 1TB in the series 3 TIVO?

thanks
hoyty
12-28-2008, 02:01 PM
Is there an"easy" way to upgrade the internall drive to a 1TB in the series 3 TIVO?

Depends on your definition of easy. In order of easiest to hardest:
1. Send TiVo to DVRUpgrade or Weaknees and have them install a new drive for you.
2. Buy a pre-configured drive from DVRUpgrade or Weakness and install it yourself.
3. Buy a drive yourself and use Instant Cake to prepare drive.
4. Buy a drive yourself and use WinMFS or MFSLive to copy old drive to new with or without existing shows.

First I would recommend looking at this thread (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=370784) that has an amazing amount of inormation concerning hard drive upgrades.
WO312
12-28-2008, 02:47 PM
Depends on your definition of easy. In order of easiest to hardest:
1. Send TiVo to DVRUpgrade or Weaknees and have them install a new drive for you.
2. Buy a pre-configured drive from DVRUpgrade or Weakness and install it yourself.
3. Buy a drive yourself and use Instant Cake to prepare drive.
4. Buy a drive yourself and use WinMFS or MFSLive to copy old drive to new with or without existing shows.

First I would recommend looking at this thread (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=370784) that has an amazing amount of inormation concerning hard drive upgrades.
#4 is really easy and will allow easy saving of your old recordings, if you wish.
fidget13a
12-29-2008, 08:21 PM
HELP!!!!

May have a larger problem. My son tried ot make a 1TB internal drive for my Series 3 TIVO. He did NOT make a back up and the TIVO is staying on the power up screen. Sometimes just rebooting and going to the power up screen again. there is also an external drive attached to the TIVO. Any suggestions???? He also tried to put the original drive back in and it is doing the same thing with that drive. :-(
donnoh
12-29-2008, 08:34 PM
HELP!!!!

May have a larger problem. My son tried ot make a 1TB internal drive for my Series 3 TIVO. He did NOT make a back up and the TIVO is staying on the power up screen. Sometimes just rebooting and going to the power up screen again. there is also an external drive attached to the TIVO. Any suggestions????

Short of grounding him without a video game, cell phone, tv and computer, not much.
He could have done a lot of things wrong, starting with not correctly pairing the internal drive with the external drive. I would start with putting the original drive back in and starting from where the system was to begin with and see if that even works.
fidget13a
12-29-2008, 08:36 PM
The original drive is doing the same thing. Will not boot up past the power up screen. :-(
Combat Medic
12-29-2008, 08:50 PM
The original drive is doing the same thing. Will not boot up past the power up screen. :-(

Try unplugging the external drive. See if either internal will bootup without te external.
fidget13a
12-29-2008, 08:51 PM
Unfortunately..neither drive will boot up all the way. :-(
Combat Medic
12-29-2008, 08:55 PM
Unfortunately..neither drive will boot up all the way. :-(

Not a problem.

Go to:
http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/instantcake.cfm

They will let you download a CD that will fix you right up.
fidget13a
12-29-2008, 10:18 PM
He got the original working by running some kind of "fix" on the drive. I think he chickened out on trying the new 1 TB drive.

thanks for your help.
Combat Medic
12-30-2008, 12:40 AM
Happy to help.
hoyty
12-30-2008, 10:35 AM
He got the original working by running some kind of "fix" on the drive. I think he chickened out on trying the new 1 TB drive.

thanks for your help.

My best guess is he mounted it in a windows machine. Then Windows wrote a signature to it which makes it not work in a TiVo. If he wants to try again I would recommend WinMFS and read the instructions carefully.
lessd
12-30-2008, 10:46 AM
My best guess is he mounted it in a windows machine. Then Windows wrote a signature to it which makes it not work in a TiVo. If he wants to try again I would recommend WinMFS and read the instructions carefully.

Unless you go into admin tool in Windows (SP2 or higher) it will never write to a TiVo drive (or blank drive) as Windows will not even see the drive.