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How do I replace my hard drive on my Tivo?

Will a regular, out of the box hard drive, work with a tivo or do i need a tivo hard drive?

  • i am trying to repair a tivo and would like to know if an xbox or out of the box, new hard drive will work with the tivo. or do i need to format them.

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    You can put in any IDE hard drive. You will need to format the drive and install tivo's flavor of linux on to it. If you have a PC and are willing to open the case, you can download the instantcake cd from ptvupgrade.com, follow fairly simple instructions, and set up the drive that way. I have seagate drives in my tivos (seagate drives come with a 5 year warranty, one of the best in the industry) and you can take advantage of really large drives (500+gb) that are made now.

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You can use any standard EIDE hard drive, but you have to format it with the TiVo OS and software. You'll also need a PC that you can work with internally, or you can just buy a pre-formatted drive from various upgraders. -BS

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You need to have the TiVo software already on the drive. It uses a custom Linux build and partitioning. You can buy pre-formatted hard drives from several companies specifically for use in TiVo's. I have used http://www.weaknees.com more than once and have been pleased with their customer service.

Kevin

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