I'm just dumbfounded with my oled upgrade issues. Pls help!

Alvysyngr · 09-10-2011, 09:14 AM

Acquired a lifetime oled TiVo which had a dying harddrive, since I had an identical unit I fired up winmfs, made a backup via windows 7, and applied the backup to a wd ears20 2tb and chose yes when it asked to use the other available space and supersize was put on. Booted up without wdidle but after clear all only showed 36 hrs hd recording space. I was told the 2 tb would not work in this unit so I ordered a 1.5 tb wd ears15 went about the identical process as before but had to use wdidle to get it to boot. It still says 36 hrs! What am I doing wrong???

Alvysyngr · 09-10-2011, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Alvysyngr

Acquired a lifetime oled TiVo which had a dying harddrive, since I had an identical unit I fired up winmfs, made a backup via windows 7, and applied the backup to a wd ears20 2tb and chose yes when it asked to use the other available space and supersize was put on. Booted up without wdidle but after clear all only showed 36 hrs hd recording space. I was told the 2 tb would not work in this unit so I ordered a 1.5 tb wd ears15 went about the identical process as before but had to use wdidle to get it to boot. It still says 36 hrs! What am I doing wrong???

I read in another post to leave out the supersize step. I'll try again and report back

dianebrat · 09-10-2011, 01:28 PM

you MUST tell it to YES to the "limit to 1TB" with winMFS, many folks have been caught by that.

Last night I imaged a 1.5TB to 1.25TB/1.35TB and it does show a proper high amount, but I used an original virgin S3 TBK file

Alvysyngr · 09-10-2011, 03:02 PM

So I should have chosen 'no' when it wait it wanted to use more space on the drive

dianebrat · 09-10-2011, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Alvysyngr

So I should have chosen 'no' when it wait it wanted to use more space on the drive

It's a confusing prompt.

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You are about to create a partition larger than 1TB.
It's too large for a stock TiVo to support.
Do you want to limit it to 1TB?

You MUST answer "YES" to that question, this isn't debatable, the answer must be YES.
I'm still struggling with some issues, but I have 196hr listed, so I'm carrying on.

And you must start the process with a clean unexpanded Tivo 250GB image to begin..

Alvysyngr · 09-10-2011, 03:30 PM

My dialog box says

'You have extra capacity on your harddrive. Do you want to expand?'

Do I say yes or no to that? I've been saying Yes

Alvysyngr · 09-10-2011, 10:24 PM

Dianebrat - thank you SO much for your help! Sending me the image and talking me through it was amazing

FYI - When I used winmfs in Windows 7 it hides a popup asking if you want to create a partition larger than 1tb - if you don't see this after saying yes to using more available space just Tab+ALT back and forth to winmfs and it will pop up.