I am torn-used 750Gb internal Drive-New S3 arriving tomorrow.

[tase2]

I just had to exchange my S3.

I purchased a 750Gb upgrade drive from Weaknees and had it in my now defunct S3 for 6 months.

I obviously took my 750Gb drive out and replaced it with the original before sending it back.

I have a new S3 arriving tomorrow.

I thought for sure that if I did the exact same procedure and put the 750Gb drive into the new S3 that all my recordings would still be there.

Now I have been told that it won't work and that I will have to run "clear and delete everything".

That means losing the 40-50 hours of recordings.


In the meantime, while my S3 has been out for exchange this whole new enabled eSATA drive has come to life.

I had mentioned to someone that perhaps I can make my interior 750Gb drive with all my recordings and make it my external eSATA and access my recordings.

I initially heard that will not work because the drive would have to be reformatted and thus all recordings will be lost.

Then someone suggested this might work:

get an eSATA enclosure
put the old drive in it
Marry it to the Series 3
maybe the shows will be intact

What do you think?

Anyway to save my 40-50 hours of recordings?

If there is no possible way to keep these recordings, a new question arrises.

What should I do with this 750Gb drive?

What would you do?

Put it in the new S3 and have a virtual new expanded drive?

Try to make it into an eSATA drive?

From what I am gathering, if I put it inside the new S3, I will lose the eSATA upgrade ability.

On the other hand I have a perfect drive ready to go in and get my 99+ hours of HD recording.

Decisions-Decisions

[spike2k5]

They is no way to save your recordings at this point. Shows are encrypted and tied to a chip on the motherboard. Without the motherboard/chip, it will take really long time to crack it.

[tase2]

Originally Posted by spike2k5

They is no way to save your recordings at this point. Shows are encrypted and tied to a chip on the motherboard. Without the motherboard/chip, it will take really long time to crack it.

OK

But what would you do now?

[spike2k5]

Turn it into an eSATA drive and install it on S3.
1 TB of space sounds good to me.

Did Weakness send you a Seagate DB35 drive or regular desktop drive?

[tase2]

Originally Posted by spike2k5

Turn it into an eSATA drive and install it on S3.
1 TB of space sounds good to me.

Did Weakness send you a Seagate DB35 drive or regular desktop drive?

The DB35.

[lessd]

Originally Posted by spike2k5

Turn it into an eSATA drive and install it on S3.
1 TB of space sounds good to me.

Did Weakness send you a Seagate DB35 drive or regular desktop drive?

I would put your drive back into the new Series 3 unless you need the extra 32 hours because for those people that can do it that way you do not have to have another piece of hardware hanging off your Series 3 and use a 2nd power supply, you may laugh about the cost of power now but at about $0.18/KWH 20 watts more power will cost you about $2.60/month

[tase2]

Originally Posted by lessd

I would put your drive back into the new Series 3 unless you need the extra 32 hours because for those people that can do it that way you do not have to have another piece of hardware hanging off your Series 3 and use a 2nd power supply, you may laugh about the cost of power now but at about $0.18/KWH 20 watts more power will cost you about $2.60/month

I never really thought about that.

[msu2k]

Originally Posted by lessd

I would put your drive back into the new Series 3 unless you need the extra 32 hours because for those people that can do it that way you do not have to have another piece of hardware hanging off your Series 3 and use a 2nd power supply, you may laugh about the cost of power now but at about $0.18/KWH 20 watts more power will cost you about $2.60/month

This has nothing to do with this conversation but now I can finally tell my wife how much all those Oprah episodes are costing us!

[tase2]

I think I will just throw it inside.

That means I will not need to spend any $$ for any enclosures, cables...

I think the 99+ hours should be enough.

Especially if I am starting at 0 hours recorded again.

[tase2]

Since I have decided to put Seagate DB35 drive back inside, I want to make sure of the correct procedure to do so.

I assume that I follow the exact same directions for placing the DB35 in this S3 as I did in the old S3.

Where I want to make sure is the "clear and delete everything" function.

Will the Tivo recognize the drive enough for me to get into Tivo Central to do the "clear and delete everything"?

Will this be the very first thing I will need to do after I plug the Tivo in?

[spike2k5]

Originally Posted by tase2

Since I have decided to put Seagate DB35 drive back inside, I want to make sure of the correct procedure to do so.

I assume that I follow the exact same directions for placing the DB35 in this S3 as I did in the old S3.

Where I want to make sure is the "clear and delete everything" function.

Will the Tivo recognize the drive enough for me to get into Tivo Central to do the "clear and delete everything"?

Will this be the very first thing I will need to do after I plug the Tivo in?

Yes to both questions.
C&DE wipes all your recordings & settings, and few other things in the files sytem.

[tase2]

Originally Posted by spike2k5

Yes to both questions.
C&DE wipes all your recordings & settings, and few other things in the files sytem.

That is also something that is confusing me.

Why do I want to do a C&DE to wipe out recordings and settings?

From what I can gather, not being a computer whiz, is that there is still a ton of data on the drive, but the current S3 will no recognize it? And therefore a CD&E is kind of like a reformatting?

Or am I way off?

[spike2k5]

Among other things, C&DE and reboot will reset your encryption key. Otherwise, you won't be able to record.

[tase2]

Originally Posted by spike2k5

Among other things, C&DE and reboot will reset your encryption key. Otherwise, you won't be able to record.

Ah-encryption key.

Thanks spike