Buying A Tivo

[Darren King]

Darren, is there a step by step guide to imaging this hdd?

http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/vie...repareTiVoDisk

I wanted to update the image, can i do this via USB?

No

I have a laptop with a external HDD drive, if i plug it in my laptop and run the image would it work?

No

Or does it need to boot from disc via a desktop?

Correct.