Premiere Drive Upgrade Instructions - with all-in-one jmfs Live CD

[ggieseke]

Originally Posted by pbhm

My Tivo Premiere (TCD746320) HD failed and not able to recover any type of image. I read in this forum that such image may be around. I am new to this forum (as of today) so any direction as how the image can be transferred to me would be helpful.

PM sent. Welcome to the community.

[jmbach]

Originally Posted by pbhm

My Tivo Premiere (TCD746320) HD failed and not able to recover any type of image. I read in this forum that such image may be around. I am new to this forum (as of today) so any direction as how the image can be transferred to me would be helpful.

Would first download DvrBARS and wait for ggieseke to see your post and he will then probably pm you with an image.

[tom gonzalez]

Thanks Comer, I just doubled my premiere to 143 hours! it took about 3 hours to copy, expand, & supersize.

[ftballpack]

Hey guys,

So, I am not sure if I should be posting this here or another thread. I bought a premiere back in 2011 and shortly after purchasing it, I upgraded the HD to a WD20EURS using Comer's method. I choose not to supersize the drive as I figured the negative disk space reading might confuse the wife....

Here is my problem, the drive while playing video back, tends to at times start pulsing. The video would be playing fine and then eventually I get a strange pulse activity. The video and audio studders for about 5 seconds and then eventually the disk recovers and it keeps playing. This happens with both live TV and recorded programming. Other people have had similar problems occur as can be seen by these two following reviews on newegg:

h t t p://w w w.newegg.c o m/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-136-783&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&Sele ctedRating=1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=t rue&SelectedRating1=1&Keywords=pulse&Page=1#scrollFullInfo

(just remove the extra spaces from the link provided, I literally am one post short of being allowed to post links)

I am not sure what to do guys. I am considering buying a WD20EZRX and just doing the widdle3 thing to made it compatible with TiVo and swapping out the drives.

When I originally installed the WD20EURS I never got these errors and now over time they have just become so frequent/annoying I am not sure if I can stand it anymore.

Any advice guys?

[jmbach]

Run the manufacturer diagnostic on the drive and run any non destructive test. Could also use a program called HDD Guardian to look at the drive SMART results and to see if the drive is starting to reassign sectors. If it is, the drive needs to be replaced. Recertifying it is a temporary fix only.