Possible to replace Premiere hard-drive with Roamio hard-drive

It would erase everything once you installed it.

 

Wouldn't work. Copy the programs off the Roamio drive asap. Replace the Roamio drive, then copy shows back if you wish.

 

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Separate reason for asking the same Q. I have the original HDD from my Roamio Pro (replaced with larger when I first got it). I now also have a Premiere with Lifetime that appears to have a bad HDD (or power source). Can I drop the original Roamio HDD into the Premiere and plug & play? I don't care if it is reformatted and has no content. Just wondered if I could start over with a working Lifetime on the Premiere.

 

Just the Roamios and Bolts can automatically format the drives. (except drives larger than 3 TB require additional steps to use their full capacity.)

Premiere and older drives need additional work done before they can be installed, or a pre-formatted drive can be bought from ebay or weaknees.

 

In particular, on all TiVo's prior to the Roamio, the system software is on the hard drive. So it isn't just a matter of running the right "formatting" tool. As mentioned one can get a hard drive properly formatted and with the appropriate software loaded on it from third parties such as Weaknees.

On the Roamio forward, the system software is in flash memory, so one can drop in a blank drive, and the TiVo can format it the way it wants.

Also, the video content is encrypted with a unique box-specific key, so you cannot just move the drive to another TiVo of the same model.

 

What model number is the Premiere, and do you have another drive at least as big as the original one but not over 2TB that you can use? To use the 3TB drive from your Pro we need to get a working drive back in the Premiere and let the OS update to at least 20.3.8 before copying it to the final drive with MFS Tools 3.2. Most of my DvrBARS images are from factory drives running 14.5, so a two-stage process is required to break the 2TB limit.