Series 3 Australian/NZ TiVo Hard Disk Upgrade
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Difficulty cloning HDD using Winmfs
Hi - I am a NZ Tivo user who is delighted and extremely grateful that I am able to continue using my two machines. Given that they now have a future, I figured I would upgrade the HDDs in both, using a couple of WD Purple 1TB units. The first one was no drama as it had no recorded material which I wanted to keep, so I just used Winmfs to restore the truncated backup from the original drive on to the new one. The second upgrade was more tricky as I wanted to keep a lot of recorded material, so used the mfscopy tool in Winmfs, with both drives connected to my laptop via Unitek USB-SATA adaptors. All went well until approx. 50mins in, and showing ETA of approx. 30mins, the blue LED on the destination drive's adaptor stopped flashing, then went out altogether, whereupon it was apparent that the drive had stopped spinning. Have tried a couple of times more with same result - always at what seems to be the same point. Hooking the new drive up to the Tivo and booting up, I see the titles of all of the recorded programs, but only a few of them actually have the material there when I select them. Does anybody have any ideas why the copy may be failing to complete, and what I may be able to do to get around this? It has been suggested to me by a knowledgeable person over here that I may have a better shot using JMFS and with the drives connected direct to SATA, rather than via USB. However, I only have a laptop with no optical drive.
Any help would be appreciated - thanks.