New Drive/Old Drive Switch

[UnionYes]

i just upgraded my series 2 with a new 160 gig drive, now i want to get the shows off my old drive

my computer is ntfs, i have a linux box as well, how would i go about getting my stuff off this old drive?

there are no scripts of any kind on the drive, its just as it was bought new plus the shows and movies i recorded, ofcourse :)

thanks in advance

[m0ondoggy]

i just upgraded my series 2 with a new 160 gig drive, now i want to get the shows off my old drive

my computer is ntfs, i have a linux box as well, how would i go about getting my stuff off this old drive?

there are no scripts of any kind on the drive, its just as it was bought new plus the shows and movies i recorded, ofcourse :)

thanks in advance

You could have just copied the drive WITH the shows. It takes forever, but it does it in one shot.

This is RIGHT out of this hinsdale howto:

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html


UPGRADE CONFIGURATION #3:

From: Any Single Drive TiVo

To: New A and New B Drive |or| New Single Larger A Drive



(Slow option – preserves setup, season passes, etc. and recordings)



Those wishing to replace their single drive TiVo with a new single larger A drive, or new A and a new B drive, while preserving their recordings will need to copy their complete existing TiVo A drive to the new larger upgrade A drive. This can be time consuming so if you are not concerned about preserving your recordings then you should see Upgrade Configuration #2 above for a much quicker procedure.



This option will not require your dos/windows C: drive and can now be removed from your PC to free up available IDE ports (remember you can use any available IDE ports you wish – just make sure to adjust the command line parameters to reflect your particular IDE connections).



Verify that your existing TiVo A drive is still jumpered to Master and connected to the Secondary Master IDE port in your PC. Then verify that your large upgrade drive, for use as your new TiVo A drive, is still jumpered to Master and attach it to the Primary Master IDE connector in your PC. If this is the drive that you just used to test your Mfs Tools backup image, then the restored image is still present and will be overwritten during the copy/expansion procedure below.



If you are also adding a new B drive then now is the time to place it in your PC. Make sure that it is jumpered as Slave (see diagram on drive or drive documentation) and connect to your Primary Slave IDE connector.



Power up your PC with the Boot Cd in your cd-rom (or Boot Floppy in your floppy drive). Boot Cd users should then hit <enter> to initiate default boot option. You will then see displayed on your screen a series of readouts before presenting you with a linux # prompt. Make sure to review the text output and confirm that your hard drive is being recognized at its full size (you can hold down the shift + page-up to review the output - Boot Cd users page-up approximately 6 times to view drive reports).



If the drive sizes are not reported correctly, you may either have a locked drive (will report size as 9-10MB - see section 7 for instructions to unlock) or you may need to turn off your computers Bios IDE detection - search Avs TiVo Underground forum if you need assistance accessing your computer's CMOS.



Command to copy/expand from single drive to new single larger A drive:

(Assumes existing TiVo A drive as Secondary Master and new larger upgrade A drive as Primary Master)



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

[UnionYes]

thanks moondog

but thats not really what im lookin for, sorry i must not have explained myself well enough

what im looking to do is just save the shows and movies, the drive is preformatted and preloaded with tivo and scripts, so i dont want to copy my old drive to the new one

i just want the shows and movies off the old onto the new

is there a way to do that?

searched the forums and didnt really find anything, unless my search criteria wasnt tight enough

thanks again

[Jamie]

i just want the shows and movies off the old onto the new.

is there a way to do that?You can extract the shows on the PC side with mfs_uberexport then import them over the network with mfs_ftp. The catch: if they are scrambled you'll only be able to play them on the same box (same crypto chip) and you'll have to take care to make sure your DiskConfiguration key on the new box matches the old. Of course, if you have to change your DC key, any scrambled shows on the new disk will be lost. There's more info in the scramble_utils subdirectory of the mfs_ftp distribution.

The other option is to put your old disk back in the tivo and unscramble the shows in place using the s2_unscramble (http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39207)stuff.

Either way is non trivial if you aren't already experience with S2 tivo hacking (breaking the chain of trust, etc). m0ondoggy's approach is the easiest method.

[UnionYes]

thanks guys, ill try and get it worked out