FWIW I discovered (possibly on this group, not sure now) that once a TiVo's hard drive has been upgraded once, it cannot be upgraded again. The MFS tools create new partitions (rather than increasing the size of existing partitions), and you hit the limit on the number of partitions you can have.
I successfully used WinMFS (MFSLive) to do the upgrade (and it felt a lot faster than I remember the previous upgrade was). Mike On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Ken Gunther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I few months ago I wrote to this forum and asked if anyone had a > suggestion on how to fix a TiVo (TiVo branded model TCD540080) that > would become unresponsive every few weeks and need to have the power > cord unplugged and then plugged in again. A few people on this and other > forums suggested that this might be a hard drive issue. The freezing > started occurring more and more frequently until it froze a few times a > week so I needed to do something. > > I downloaded the instructions on how to replace the hard drive from > http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html. All it took > was the instructions, a new EIDE hard drive, the MFS utility from > http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/MFSLBA48.zip and two > Torx screwdrivers (Torx 10 and Torx 15). > > I removed the old hard drive from my TiVo, put it into a PC and > copied > it to the new hard drive using the MFS utility (I also expanded the > drive from a 80 GB to 160 GB). I put the new drive into my TiVo and it > worked perfectly, it had my setup information, season passes, wish lists > and all of the programs from my old hard drive. > > I did this two weeks ago and my TiVo has performed flawlessly ever > since, it has not frozen once. > > For all of you who suggested replacing the hard drive thank you for > your advice. > > For anyone with a TiVo that freezes or wanting to expand the > capacity > of your TiVo this is an easy inexpensive way to do it, the only cost is > the the new hard drive and a CD to burn the MFS utility onto. > > Happy TiVoing, > Ken G. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
