Upgrade an upgraded TiVo

[coxmen]

I upgraded my model 540040 series 2 TiVo to a dual 60GB TiVo but one of the hard drives has a very loud click or tick going on.

What I want to do is replace both drives to a 250GB single drive. I would like to keep all my season pass and thumbs and recordings I have. I know someone out there can point me in the right direction and help a fellow TiVo'er out.

Thanks fellows

[Narf54321]

Check out Hinsdale's guide (two drives into one).

Make sure you get a bootable Linux CD image which has LBA 48-bit hard drive support, or your 250GB drive won't work right.

[Jamie]

You won't be able to fit all the partitions from a dual drive series 2 onto a single drive. This is pointed out in the Hinsdale guide:Those with ... dual drive Series 2 units (with user added B drive) ... will not have enough available partitions remaining in order to combine their existing drives onto a single larger A drive and expand to use any remaining space while still preserving their recordings.The OP can transfer the recordings off to a PC, then back after a sans recordings upgrade, or do something like this (http://alt.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=772&rid=0&S=e6f1e283e707069dfd5efdb776c281ac#msg_num_3) to free up some partition slots.

[coxmen]

You won't be able to fit all the partitions from a dual drive series 2 onto a single drive. This is pointed out in the Hinsdale guide:The OP can transfer the recordings off to a PC, then back after a sans recordings upgrade, or do something like this (http://alt.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=772&rid=0&S=e6f1e283e707069dfd5efdb776c281ac#msg_num_3) to free up some partition slots.

Would this let me add the new 250GB as a "A" drive but I would lose all of my settings and recordings?
If so I guess that will work. or how about replaceing the "B" drive (it is the bad drive) so I would have the 40GB(Stock) and the new 250GB

[ocntscha]

Would this let me add the new 250GB as a "A" drive but I would lose all of my settings and recordings?
If so I guess that will work. or how about replaceing the "B" drive (it is the bad drive) so I would have the 40GB(Stock) and the new 250GBI replaced only the B drive in my Tivo recently with a much larger one. Worked great and yes it'll retain all your settings and recordings.

Use dd to copy the current B drive to the larger replacement B drive.

So, the new B drive will now have a partition table on it that doesn't reflect the true size of new B drive, it'll have the old B drives partition table.

According to the mfstools documentation, that doesn't matter, mfsadd won't care. I personally cared though and followed the excellent information here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=629559&highlight=pdisk+mfsadd#post629559) to make the partition table on my new B drive correct for its size.

You'll need to have the A drive mounted in your PC as well the new B drive and all thats left to do is expand it. For example you've got the A drive at hdc and the new B drive at hdd, all you'd need to do is mfsadd -x /dev/hdc /dev/hdd

Done.
(If you decide to replace the 60Gb B drive with something larger than 250Gig then add a -r 3 or -r 4 into the mfsadd command)