Hi all,
I am thinking og upgrading my Tivo.

Is pacelink the besr place to buy my drive from - or do you know of anywhere
else?

Cheers in advance

Ad

--
"You're terrible Muriel" - Jonie Heslop, from Muriel's Wedding, 1995

WorcsBoy wrote:

I am thinking og upgrading my Tivo.

It isn't hard to DIY it.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/tez5
How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/
BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

I bought mine off eBay - there are a few sellers there.

- Simon.

"WorcsBoy" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I am thinking og upgrading my Tivo.

Is pacelink the besr place to buy my drive from - or do you know of
anywhere
else?

Cheers in advance

Ad

--
"You're terrible Muriel" - Jonie Heslop, from Muriel's Wedding, 1995

its really easy to do yourself and much much cheaper my tivo is 240mb



"Simon Heather" wrote in message
.. .
I bought mine off eBay - there are a few sellers there.

- Simon.

"WorcsBoy" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I am thinking og upgrading my Tivo.

Is pacelink the besr place to buy my drive from - or do you know of
anywhere
else?

Cheers in advance

Ad

--
"You're terrible Muriel" - Jonie Heslop, from Muriel's Wedding, 1995

Hi there,

I have searched the web and I have a copy of Hinsdales how to... to add an
extra tivo HD but I have to admit it does sound quite technical to do this.
I have installed a cd/dvd writer into my pc, but this backing up of hard
drives sounds really difficult.
Am i looking in the right place on how to do this?

Cheers
Ad
wrote in message ...
its really easy to do yourself and much much cheaper my tivo is 240mb



"Simon Heather" wrote in message
.. .
I bought mine off eBay - there are a few sellers there.

- Simon.

"WorcsBoy" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I am thinking og upgrading my Tivo.

Is pacelink the besr place to buy my drive from - or do you know of
anywhere
else?

Cheers in advance

Ad

--
"You're terrible Muriel" - Jonie Heslop, from Muriel's Wedding, 1995

Yes, Hinsdales guide is A.OK !

Your basically booting into a unix environment and running a few basic
commands, copying the tivo image from the old drive to the new drive.

Q. Why add an extra drive ? Just get a 120Gb drive and have a single
drive unit. This way there is less chance for hardware failure, 2
disk's means twice the risk of failure. 120Gb gives around 60 hrs at
high quality setting.

Phil


WorcsBoy wrote:
Hi there,

I have searched the web and I have a copy of Hinsdales how to... to add an
extra tivo HD but I have to admit it does sound quite technical to do this.
I have installed a cd/dvd writer into my pc, but this backing up of hard
drives sounds really difficult.
Am i looking in the right place on how to do this?

Cheers
Ad
wrote in message ...

its really easy to do yourself and much much cheaper my tivo is 240mb



"Simon Heather" wrote in message
...

I bought mine off eBay - there are a few sellers there.

- Simon.

"WorcsBoy" wrote in message
...

Hi all,
I am thinking og upgrading my Tivo.

Is pacelink the besr place to buy my drive from - or do you know of

anywhere

else?

Cheers in advance

Ad

--
"You're terrible Muriel" - Jonie Heslop, from Muriel's Wedding, 1995

Yannick wrote:
Yes, Hinsdales guide is A.OK !

Your basically booting into a unix environment and running a few basic
commands, copying the tivo image from the old drive to the new drive.

Just to add my 2 pennoth

I recently got a couple of 7200rpm Deskstar 120GB drives from ebuyer (I paid
extra for the 8MB cache ones because they have a 3yr manufacturer warranty)
and have only bothered to install one: the list of suggestions is already
wayyyyy too long for me to ever consider watching it all.

I'd never upgraded a TiVo drive before and, like the OP, was somewhat
apprehensive about the level of difficulty: however I installed the drives
on the main channel, booted using the tivo boot CD, downloaded the latest
version of mfstools (v2?) on floppy (this is supposed to work better with UK
tivos) and just told it to copy the whole lot and left it overnight. It's
worked flawlessly since.

I'd definitely recommend DIY.

Incidentally the drive works brilliantly, and even though there's 9 or 10
pages of programmes in the Now Showing there's no slowdown at all, in fact
if anything the machine is _more_ responsive than it used to be (I'm running
TiVoweb and the softpadding hack). The temperature is still listed as
"normal" and the noise levels are unnoticeable.

Geoff