Upgraded to Biger Drive, now recordings have corrupted sections.

I have the same issue with my series 2. I tested both hard drives and they were fine (took them out and used seagate tool)

Please post if you find an answer. Mine was fine until about two months back.

Thanks

 

A complete clone and expanded restore to a new larger hard drive from the original hard drive with the season passes and actual programming is your best option. It might take 3-5 hours, but it is the easiest setup with "NO fancy footwork."

Go to: http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html Click on the link to download the msftools Series 2 boot cd file.

You will need to make a mfstools CD bootup disk. I use my Windows Vista laptop. It is so easy. Just place a blank cd-r in the cd writer. X or close out the option screen. Download and save the file to a directory in the hard drive. Run the file and create the boot image cd.

On a PC with no Windows or DOS drives, connect the original drive as a secondary master. Connect the NEW drive as a secondary master and the CD rom as a secondary slave. Make sure that each drive is correctly jumpered.

Go to the motherboard CMOS setup and auto detect the hard drives and cd roms. Exit and save. Make sure the boot CD is in the drive.

Bootup the system. Keep on hitting the enter key. At the Linux /# prompt, enter;


mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda

This will generally take from 1-4 hours depending upon drive size, ATA, CPU speed etc. In some circumstances this can take as long as 8 hours or more. Mfs Tools will provide progress readouts and results when completed (if screen goes blank before finishing simply hit the shift key to restore screen). Make sure when the command is finished that no errors were reported. When complete you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait for the 'No more processes ... ' message or the system starts to reboot, then power down.

Install the drive, and you're done.

 

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What did you use to do the upgrade?

 

You don't need to do an erase. Copying onto the NEW drive will do that.

 

I'm having the exact same problem and used the instructions from mfslive.org. Which hard drive did you upgrade to? I'm using a Seagate 7200.10, which is totally loud, and I want to replace it already.

 

I actually used a Seagate 2.5 inch 5400 rpm PATA laptop drive from Seagate. I got it at of the local Office Depot on sale for $99.99.

Since I was going to use it in the bedroom, I needed something ultra quiet. Since doing the upgrade, I only hear the fan on the TiVo. It it louder than any noise coming off of the drive. Even when the fan is off, I don't hear the drive.

Also the drive uses less than 3 watts; about 1/4 the power of a regular drive. A 5 year warranty from Seagate sealed the deal. The cable adapter was less than $5 delivered off of eBay.

Also, the internal temperature of the TiVo dropped 5 degrees.

Lower temperature and lower power consumption will really offset the extra cost of a laptop drive over the long duration.