[eman989]

I own two R10 units and one of them started locking up on the Welcome screen. I wanted to isolate the problem, so I took the good HD out of my working unit and installed it in the damaged R10. It booted but I could not access the recordings on it - this leads me to my question... do I need to do anything special when adding a drive?

I thought I'd clone the working HD onto a blank/new HD and get the damaged unit back up and running but I'm worried there may be other steps involved.

ps- why did DirecTV ditch Tivo? I hate their units... ugh!

 

[JimSpence]

When you change the HD, even between like boxes, you have to do a Clear and Delete Everything in order for the drive to be "married" to the mainboard.

 

[Dkerr24]

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ps- why did DirecTV ditch Tivo? I hate their units... ugh!

Most likely reason I've heard here is because Directv didn't want to pay Tivo $1 per month per Directivo unit in circulation.

 

[eman989]

Do you guys have a recommendation/how-to to clone a HD for my DirecTV TIVO?

A while back I recall there being a special linux boot disk to handle the process but I cant find the link and I'm not sure if this is still the recommended process.

Thanks in advance-

Essentially I want to take my working drive and clone it to a spare ata drive I own.

 

[John T Smith]

Try the hacking/upgrade forum
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=24

 

[rock_doctor]

Eman989 you can start here: http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/step2.php follow the tabs and then down load the program to your computer. Burn the cd image and follow the directions carefully. Make sure you do a clear and delete once you put the made disk into the R10.

good luck,
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