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Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Backup Tivo Images

 I used to think the serial number was on the hard drive, but it seems that the Tivo serial number is located elsewhere.  Having said that I can now tell you about the bad time I have had with adding a second hard drive to my Tivo.  Regular readers may remember that I added an 80gig drive to my Tivo a while back.  As it turns out, this 80gig drive has a bad spot on it and causes the Tivo to crash any time it tries to write to it.  When I started looking into taking that drive back out I hit a brick wall….

 

Once you have added a drive it is a heck of a hard thing to go back to a single drive… Unless you don’t care about your stored movies.  A buddy of mine…who may or may not work with me, found the following site: ftp://ftp.abs.net/tivo/

 

The backup directory has oodles of backup images (I don’t know for how long so get them if you need them)

 

More news tonight if it works!

2 comments:

  1. Hypothetically, of course...
    Where would one be able to find a backup image for a DirecTivo HDVR2???

    Just wondering....

    Frank Lewis
    frank@tikitechnology.com

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  2. I WANT TO KNOW TOO PLS

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