I want to put a Premiere HD into my Series 3

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My Series 3 modified (by previous owner) 750Gb drive is bad.
It was freezing up (live tv after a few hours), so I tried a system reset.
Now it's hanging at the 'Powering up' message.
I tested the supply to the HD and am getting 11.4 volts.
I ran a disk test, through Win7 and it failed.

So, since I have only a 320Gb in my other Tivo (Premiere).
I thought I would upgrade that to 1Tb. and use the 320 in the S3 HD

How do I go about that? (AFTER I have upgraded the Premiere of course)!
Is it possible with something like WinMFS?
Is there a thread with instructions, specific to what d like to do?

Thanks!
Pete

 

Thanks for the comments.

I do not have the original S3 drive, and I tried to read it with winmfs (thought I would try to make an image of it, but it came back with the message 'Not a Tivo drive, backup failed'.
So as far as the S3, am I hooped? I had a Lifetime on it.
Is it possible to get a Tivo image and copy it to a new HD?

With the cover off, and plugging in the S3, I did hear 'ticking' from the big 470uF 200V cap on the power supply, so I'm going to replace that on the off chance that maybe that was the problem in the first place!

I also tried to copy the P(remiere) HD using JMFS Rev104 and each time It would just have, sometimes at 60Gb, sometimes less sometimes more....
I don't know if the destination drive, which was new, is the problem. Is there something I can do to prepare this new drive?

I did prepare the original 320GB P HD, by deleting all content - figured it would speed up the copying.

 

Do you mean running WinMFS when logged on as a user with an administrator account? or do you mean right click run as admin?
I will try the right click way later!
Thanks

 

Thank you!
I will replace a couple of the caps. on the PS first, then see if I can get it to boot.
One cap is 'doming', the one that ticks looks ok but I will replace them both.
Pete

 

Ok, so I replaced the caps, but I still have the problem. (At least the caps are all good now - I replaced 12 out of the 15).
On initial power up, I get the 'Powering up...' message for a few secs, then a blank screen.

So now I want to try a different HD.
I have a 320gb that I just deleted everything off.
Do I format this (ntfs?) and then run winmfs.exe (admin mode) and copy the image file (thanks Lillevig)??
Thanks!
Pete

 

Yes, but this references a NEW drive. I am using an old drive that has files on it and was formatted for win7.
I just tried to copy a Tivo image file and I get an Error writing media inode 1 message. Will google that message...

 

Thanks I'll give it a shot

 

I'm only getting max. 5V on the red leads connected to the Motherboard.
Aren't they supposed to be 12V??
Oh, I get 12V at the HD (yellow) and 5V on the red (HD)

 

Ok, I got this far and was able to restore the image file I d/l'd.
So now the Tivo is in a reset loop...
It comes up with the Powering up message for about a minute, then restarts and repeats.
When I ran the winmfs prog. I said 'no' to 'expanding' the drive. Should I have said yes?
Not sure what to do about the looping though!

I should point out, that I put the image onto a 320Gb drive that had some files from a win7 computer (not the boot drive). This wasn't the Tivo drive from my Premiere.