Removing and reinserting external drive when modding

[Darren King]

To be totally honest I'd be looking more at ditching both the old internal hard disk and the expander and start again. The expanders are known to be problematic and they are all getting old now, so even if you did get it going again it probably won't have a long life and the TiVo has lost most/all it's recordings anyway.

A new 2TB hard disk in the TiVo will be the better solution.

[cpab]

G'day Darren.

As no other solutions came up, I cloned the 160 onto the 1 TB HDD from the expander and fitted it in the Tivo. Worked perfectly.

I told the Tivo owners that it may not last, but it can be replaced anytime.

At the end of the process, it had 3 days of program data on with postcode 6000.

[Darren King]

Good result!

Yep so long as they know it may be on borrowed time then all good.

Cheers