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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1242275" data-attributes="member: 151">I replaced the hard drive.&nbsp; I still have the original hard drive, and in event of a serious failure, I could put it right back in, and nothing's changed (my system's old enough that it's out of warranty, regardless, and I don't have the lifetime service).&nbsp;&nbsp;I was very paranoid about doing it, actually, and wanted to be very cautious.&nbsp; The instructions I used (along with a linux boot ISO image and win98 boot floppy) spelled out the process step-by-step, and was exteremely concerned with making sure you didn't mess up your existing installation.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Essentially, you use a Linux boot disc to back up your existing drive to a larger one, and then expand the image on the new drive.&nbsp; (although the instructions covered every possible configuration of one and two drives, I took the slow option, to preserve all of the recorded programs on my Tivo at that time.)&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Considering <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tivohks/index.html" target="_blank">some of the things you can do to a Tivo</a> now, my upgrade was pretty tame. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 1242275, member: 151"] I replaced the hard drive. I still have the original hard drive, and in event of a serious failure, I could put it right back in, and nothing's changed (my system's old enough that it's out of warranty, regardless, and I don't have the lifetime service). I was very paranoid about doing it, actually, and wanted to be very cautious. The instructions I used (along with a linux boot ISO image and win98 boot floppy) spelled out the process step-by-step, and was exteremely concerned with making sure you didn't mess up your existing installation. Essentially, you use a Linux boot disc to back up your existing drive to a larger one, and then expand the image on the new drive. (although the instructions covered every possible configuration of one and two drives, I took the slow option, to preserve all of the recorded programs on my Tivo at that time.) Considering [url="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tivohks/index.html"]some of the things you can do to a Tivo[/url] now, my upgrade was pretty tame. :) [/QUOTE]

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