Can I "combine" dtivo hard drives?

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Have one T60 fully paid lifetime/subbed with 40gb hard drive. Have another with 252extreme and lots of shows on it.

Can I take the drive out of the latter, re-jumper it to Primary Slave, and install it in the former, in order to keep all the shows?

Neither unit has networking set up and while I believe I could install a new large second drive and transfer the shows with mfs_ftp (or whatever it's called), I would like to find an easier way to accomplish the task.

Any other suggestions appreciated. TIA.

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You can't just add two drives together and keep the recordings. This would work is the recordings were on the A drive and you wanted to add a new blank B drive but not the other way around. It sounds like mfs_ftp is going to be your best bet, although it will take you a while to transfer the shows, depending on how may you have recorded.

[rfc]

It sounds like mfs_ftp is going to be your best bet, although it will take you a while to transfer the shows, depending on how may you have recorded.

Thanks for the quick reply. I have not read the mfs_ftp readmes and FAQ in their entirety (and am on my way to do so), but I hope that I can transfer the shows from tivo->PC with the drives IN the PC, thereby avoiding installing networking on both machines. Thanks again.

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I just found the "Direct extraction from a tivo drive in a pc (not networked) sticky thread. I got to believe my answer is in there...up from tivo drive to pc...pc back to other tivo drive.