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**daggo** · 19-07-2006, 09:43 AM

Can I use Nortons Ghost to clone my TiVO hard drive? I got a bunch of 300G drives that I now can't put in 7200.9

But I have some 250G drives that I want to put in. So can I clone the 120G drive in my TiVO now to a 250G? And then I follow the wiki for putting in the 2nd drive? Or is there some other method for cloning drive 1 to a new drive?

**thomson** · 19-07-2006, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by daggo

Can I use Nortons Ghost to clone my TiVO hard drive? I got a bunch of 300G drives that I now can't put in 7200.9

But I have some 250G drives that I want to put in. So can I clone the 120G drive in my TiVO now to a 250G? And then I follow the wiki for putting in the 2nd drive? Or is there some other method for cloning drive 1 to a new drive?

Boot of one of the network/image CD's and use one of the following commands to copy the contents of the master (hda) to the slave (hdb):

Code:

mfsbackup -l 32 -6so - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hdb
  <or>
mfstool backup -aqo - /dev/hda | mfstool restore -r 4 -s 127 -pxi - /dev/hdb

**daggo** · 19-07-2006, 11:33 PM

Thanks mate.

**petestrash** · 20-07-2006, 10:53 PM

And for the record Norton's Ghost will not work on TiVo drives, because it requires booting windows which will write to any attached TiVo drive making it unbootable.

Peter

**Paul** · 21-07-2006, 08:28 AM

I don't mean to hijack the thread but I'm about to do the move from a 30Gb to 250Gb drive. The problem I can see is the swap partition size. Is there a way to copy from one drive to another and end up with a larger swap partition?

cheers

Paul

**Darren King** · 21-07-2006, 08:48 AM

The default swap should be 127 if you used the installer CD and did not alter the swap value. This size is also OK for a 250GB hard disk.

**Paul** · 21-07-2006, 09:59 AM

I used a swap of 64Mb as per http://131.244.9.101/twiki/bin/view/...repareTiVoDisk

**Darren King** · 21-07-2006, 10:10 AM

Fair enough. Sorry I missed that (my name appears on the twiki but I did not write that bit).

Personally I have never done that, electing to use the opening comments of that section only as my guideline: "The default (127MB) swap partition size is OK for total disk storage of up to 274GB." I have never seen such message of "drive too small" regarding using 127 on drives lower than 40GB - even for my test hard disks down to only a few gig in size.

Not being a software orientated person I can't tell you how to expand the swap manually.

**petestrash** · 21-07-2006, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Paul

I don't mean to hijack the thread but I'm about to do the move from a 30Gb to 250Gb drive. The problem I can see is the swap partition size. Is there a way to copy from one drive to another and end up with a larger swap partition?

The problem this OP was talking about, but did not mention specifically is that Seagate 7200.9 drives 250GB+ won't work in a dual drive TiVo.

See Seagate_7200_9_hard_drives_over.

Peter.

**Paul** · 22-07-2006, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by petestrash

The problem this OP was talking about, but did not mention specifically is that Seagate 7200.9 drives 250GB+ won't work in a dual drive TiVo.

Peter.

Thanks Peter, I understood that but wanted to know if I could use the method given by thomson to copy my 30Gb to the 250Gb and then fix up the swap partition size.