Roamio Pro - overhaul under way - Help!

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Okay ... power surge killed my Roamio Pro power supply...
(15 year old S3 survivied and is going with me into the zombie apocalypse)

Since I'm opening it up to fix/replace the PS I thought I would upgrade my HDD while I'm there, and have a WD Purple to drop in, but this is my first Roamio HDD upgrade.

Question 1: Do I need to use MFS Tools to prepare the drive or transfer information?

I was running TE4 and copied off what I could with PyTivo in anticipation of rolling back to TE3, so my S3 and Roamio could share files directly. I really don't want/need to transfer anything.


Question 2: I recall that my Roamio initialized itself, there was no extensive guided setup like with my S3. So, is there a step in that process where I halt it and intialize it under TE3 instead of TE4, or do I have to let the restart/initialization finish and then roll it back?

Thank You !

 

Yes, the new HDD is larger than 3Tb, so it sounds like I DO NEED to run MFS Tools...

THANKS !

btw, got a pointer to the latest download? It's been 10 years (or more) since I've done this.

 

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Well .. "funny" you should mention that...
I got a new PS from Weaknees and opened the box to change it out.
Lo and behold, I could "see" nothing wrong with the old PS - no burst capacitors or burnt ends, nothing I could see with a large magnifying glass and good lighting.
BUT I swapped PS anyway, and when I went to boot it up, got NOTHING. Zip. Nada.

I think I'm stuck with sending it in for whatever repair it may require.

Which kind of burns me, I paid good money for a premium media center surge protector, and at the time of the outage/surge, had a 65" TV, TiVO S3, 2 "tuning adapters," and my Dell media center PC all plugged in and either "on" or in standby. There were NO PROBLEMS with any other device, just the Roamio... Are they really that delicate?

 

OMG ... the coin cell ... !! LOL So glad you mentioned that...
As far as WAGs go, it's as good as any I've got left.
When I saw that the drive was 2015 (I got the unit in 2018), I wondered about the battery, and ... didn't replace it.

I have a meter, but visual inspection of the few bits and bobs not already on the PS sub-board didn't show anything I would try to put a meter on. I'll look around at other threads to see what anyone else has done... I'm local to Weaknees, but don't know if they're taking walk-ins while So Cal is still locked down. I was going to open a dialog with them, but thought I'd see what nuggets of wisdom I could glean from this community first.

Thanks and Cheers !