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03-25-2008, 02:57 PM
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WinMFS small to larger HDD
I am going to use the MFScopy tool in WinMFS to copy my S3 HDD to another larger HDD. Going from the stock 250GB drive to a 1TB drive.
Do I need to do the supersize option to enable the rest of the available drive space?
I will be doing this on a TiVo HD too. 160GB to 1TB.
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03-25-2008, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by tazzmission
I am going to use the MFScopy tool in WinMFS to copy my S3 HDD to another larger HDD. Going from the stock 250GB drive to a 1TB drive.
Do I need to do the supersize option to enable the rest of the available drive space?
I will be doing this on a TiVo HD too. 160GB to 1TB.
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You'll do a MFSadd to expand the drive. Supersize is to utilize for the Tivoclips.
If you are not copying recordings, this will take like 3-4 minutes!
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03-25-2008, 07:08 PM
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I'd like to copy the original HDD to the larger HDD with all my recordings and expand to use the entire new HDD.
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03-25-2008, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by tazzmission
I'd like to copy the original HDD to the larger HDD with all my recordings and expand to use the entire new HDD.
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Supersize is a separate step regardless. It is not the same as "expanding" the drive to utilize the larger capacity. The expanding part should be a prompt during one of the other steps as it was when I did the restore from the truncated(no copy) back up.
The Supersize step just gives an additional 9 hours or so on a 1TB drive.
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03-25-2008, 07:43 PM
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When you copy one drive to another in WinMFS, it will ask you if you want to run MFSAdd. Say yes, and you are done.
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03-25-2008, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by rainwater
When you copy one drive to another in WinMFS, it will ask you if you want to run MFSAdd. Say yes, and you are done.
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Sweet. Thanks.
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03-25-2008, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by tazzmission
Sweet. Thanks.
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However, you will still need to do the "Supersize" step, if you want the maximum 144 hours of the 1TB drive. Otherwise "you are done" with about 136 hrs.
Just to let you know.
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03-25-2008, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by dwit
However, you will still need to do the "Supersize" step, if you want the maximum 144 hours of the 1TB drive. Otherwise "you are done" with about 136 hrs.
Just to let you know.
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The supersize step isn't required, and the drive will be more like a stock TiVo drive without it. Despite everyone saying it is safe, I tend to be more safe and never enable this option.
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03-26-2008, 12:23 AM
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Since the reserved space is based on a percentage rather than a defined value I'd argue that a supersize drive is closer to original spec than one with it turned off.
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03-26-2008, 12:46 AM
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Originally Posted by ciper
Since the reserved space is based on a percentage rather than a defined value I'd argue that a supersize drive is closer to original spec than one with it turned off.
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I tend to agree with you on the assumption(mis?) about "more like a stock Tivo drive".
The person responsible for the developement of winmfs, supersize and all, reports it's safe. To date, there's probably no evidence to the contrary.
To each his own though. Almost invariably, when one upgrades and doesn't see the reported supersized capacity, they ask what happened, not realizing it was a separate step.
Supersize Option, Where does the space come from?
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Last edited by dwit : 03-26-2008 at 12:53 AM.
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