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Will Roamio Plus Reformat Original Hard Drive If Replacement Drive Swapped Out Again

Discussion in 'TiVo Roamio DVRs' started by nazopo, Jul 12, 2016.

  1. Jul 12, 2016 #1 of 4
    nazopo

    nazopo Member

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    I was wondering if after replacing the original hard drive in a Tivo Roamio with a new hard drive would it be possible to still place the previous hard drive back into the Roamio and say view previous recordings that were on the original hard drive? I wasn't sure if the Tivo would reformat the original hard drive again.
     
  2. Jul 13, 2016 #2 of 4
    dianebrat

    dianebrat wait.. I did what? TCF Club

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    It will not reformat it but you may have lost CableCARD pairing, I know since I've done it..
     
  3. Jul 13, 2016 #3 of 4
    ggieseke

    ggieseke Well-Known Member

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    When I was writing MFSR, the CableCARD pairing was maintained as long as I was extremely careful to remove the card at the same time as the drive it was paired to, and to have it in place when I put that drive back in. Anything else would break the pairing because TiVo assigns a unique ID to every drive that it formats.
     
  4. Jul 13, 2016 #4 of 4
    ThAbtO

    ThAbtO TiVoholic by the bay TCF Club

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    It will only format when it detects an unrecognized format or partition, or a new uninitialized drive.
     

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