How do I move the info from 2 drives to 1 drive???

[monkeynuts]

How do I move the info from 2 drives to 1 drive???

I would like to know if I can Copy the image off of my two drives I made with instant cake to one single drive.

I have a series 2 DirecTV tivo dvr40 with 2 160gb drives that have been moded using instant cake 6.2. They worked fine for about 4 months but now I am having problems with one of the drives over heating. So some new hardware is in order. I have purchased 1 new 300gb hard drive

Is it possible to copy all the stuff (movies and season pass info) on the two drives to the one drive.
If so can you please give me a link to where the instructions are??

[eastwind]

Is the unit hacked? If so, how was it hacked?

ew

[monkeynuts]

Yes it was hacked using PTV's Instant Cake 6.2 .

Please don't repremand me.
I know I took the easy way out.
This is why:
I had learned sleeper's iso and had a fully functional system with extraction and the whole 9 yards.
One day my tivo took a dump and I had no tv.
I was told sleeper was out dated.
I tried to learn the new system but it's pretty complicated for a poor cracker A/C man.
After a few failures and my wife on my back about the tv,
I paid ptv for the bundled software and was watching Dog Whisperer in less than an hour.

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by monkeynuts

Yes it was hacked using PTV's Instant Cake 6.2

Instantcake restores a semi-stock image to your drive with no hacks. So it sounds to me like you don't have a hacked tivo.

The answer to your original question is that there is no good way to do what you want to do. There are too many partitions in a two drive layout to fit them all onto a single drive. You could play the games here to coalesce partitions to make it work, but it's not recommended unless you know your way around MFS and the partition table.

[monkeynuts]

That's what I was expecting to hear.

What about making a back up image then restoring it.

Another thing I read was about using ghost for linux. What do you think about that?

[PlainBill]

Given that you wish to preserve recordings, you have only one practical option: Backup the original drive pair using
mfsbackup -l 30 -s6o /cdrive/tivo/smallbackup.mfs /dev/hdc This SHOULD create a backup image with only the original mfs partitions. Restore that image to the new drive, and test it. It should have all your season passes, thumbs, etc. Now Playing will show your recordings but they won't really exist on the drive, so delete them.

Next you will have to hack your original drives. All you want are network access and mfs-ftp. Put the original drives in the TiVo, back up the recordings, then restore them to the new drive (which must also be hacked).

PlainBill

[Jamie]

The other thing you could do is to stay with a two disk system. e.g. the 300GB and whichever of your 160's still works.

If you have cooling problems with two disks, you could attack that problem directly when additional cooling fans, vent holes, etc.

[monkeynuts]

Thanks for all your help.

You guys are why this is the best tivo site out there.

THANKS