Can I swap Tivo disk drives?

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Mike61

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#267885 16-Feb-2020 19:21

I think the disk drive in my Tivo is on the way out? It's started doing random skips when watching a program and not allowing fast forward or rewind, when the buttons are pushed the time bar shows up and shows no back or forward recording for the program.

So I have a second unmodded Tivo, can I swap it's drive into the modded Tivo? I'll run the program to update the drive before installing it.

Cheers

Mike

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#2421939 16-Feb-2020 19:37

You can do this, but you will loose all recordings and season passes etc, just like you had done a factory reset.

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#2421942 16-Feb-2020 19:48

You'll need to do a "Full clear and delete everything" also after booting up with the pre-modded drive from another Tivo. If you don't do this, you won't be able to record anything new, as well as not having access to previous recordings. Also, unless that second hard disk has one of the two last software versions, you won't be able to mod/patch it either. That'll be obvious if there's a problem when you run the patching software.

Tivo upgrades to operate with the new OzTivo EPG, support and service. Over 400 performed here so far. See: www.hillcrest.net.nz

Mike61

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#2423571 19-Feb-2020 06:45

Thanks for the replies. Pretty sure the second Tivo has the latest version of the software, but as you say I'll find out when I run the script.
The problem has not reoccurred, so I'll get the second drive ready and swap out next time there's a glitch.

Cheers

Mike