Series 3 upgrade (replace drive)

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Over the weekend, I tried to upgrade my old Series 3 (the original one - not a TiVo HD), using WinMFS on a Win 7 machine to do a MFSCOPY from the original drive to a 1 TB one.

The copy seemed to work as expected (including asking if I wanted to expand the drive - presumably MFSSUPERSIZE).

But when I put the drive in the Tivo (taking the original out), it just reboots over and over again.

Any ideas or suggestions what I can do to troubleshoot?


Here are more details (in case they're relevant): I'm upgrading to a WD10EURX drive that's a new drive. I'd originally had a WD10EURX (or EURS - I don't recall now) in there, and in the last month that drive failed so I put the original back in, and had the vendor who sold me the original 1 TB drive send a replacement under warrantee.

The original drive was doing the same as this one (with the TiVo rebooting constantly), and with the original drive works. I admit, I didn't do any other checking on the old drive to confirm that it really was defective, and I no longer have that drive to check.

Also, when I first attempted this transfer (using WinMFS), I tried it on a Windows 10 pc here, and after a few hiccups, thought that it worked, only to have the TiVo rebooting issue I mentioned above. That was when I decided to dig a Win 7 machine out of mothballs and try that one, only to have the same ultimate result.

Should I look for a way to "low level" format the drive first? Should I have not done the "expand" on the drive?


One other thing - I'm also planning to upgrade my Roamio one of these days, so I probably should get over my hesitation to use MFSTools, and I could try using that to copy the data for the Series 3 too.

 

Okay, I went through the steps that unitron mentioned, and I'm still getting the constant rebooting issue.

Originally, I assumed it wasn't the power supply, as with the original hard drive in it works, and with the new one in it doesn't.

Of course, it's quite possible that the new drive draws more power than the old one.


That said, I don't see anything wrong with the power supply itself (no bulging or discolored capacitors), so I'm trying to figure out my next steps.

I'm thinking the only things left are:

1) try the WinMFS copy again, but this time don't even attempt the MFSAdd (I don't need the extra space that badly), and try that

2) look into replacing the power supply

The problem with that one is that I don't know 100% sure that it's the problem, and would rather not waste too much money if that's the case.

Note: I checked Weaknees for the power supply, and it looks like it'll cost me ultimately $130 if it works, or $60-80 if it doesn't and I have to send it back (to cover shipping costs/return shipping costs/restocking fee), so if there's any way I can better determine that it's the power supply, that'd be great.

For the record: I am no stranger to using a multimeter (or a soldering iron) to check things, I just don't know what exactly to check. I'm even tempted to just start replacing the capacitors myself and see if that fixes it.

I've even toyed with the idea of finding a Series 3 on eBay to part out.

Other suggestions?

 

That's the thing - it boots up just fine if I have the original (250Gb) drive in, just not with the 1Tb one in, which was what at first made me suspect it was the drive more than the power supply.

That gives me an idea. Yes, to answer your question, I do have recordings/season passes I'd like to safe (if possible), but there's no reason why I can't create the clean image as per your suggestion and try that, just to see if it works. If it does, then I know it's NOT the power supply, but an issue with the transfer process.


Thanks!