Doing so will blank your TiVo disk. Log in or Sign up. The method described below has been tested and at the present time confirmed to work. If you are asked if you want to partition or initialize the hard drive select no or cancel. The haddrive was mounted on the left and was removed for this photograph. 
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Note, if you find that after 30 seconds all 4 lights on the front of the Tivo are flashing this likely means you are using the wrong power supply likely you switched with a Tivo Miniswitch back to the original Roamio power supply. The UK Virgin Media TiVo has a sticker over one of the screws but I am reliably informed that this can be easily removed intact and later replaced via the careful use of a hairdryer and scalpel.
For those with expensive winmfd lifetime subscriptions this will help you breathe even better. The simplest approach is to reboot and then skip the above steps and go straight to this expand option.
The Copy option simply copies our original TiVo hard disk to the new hard disk. A note on solid state drives: For this process the only hard drives you will need connected to your PC are the original TiVo hard disk and the disk you plan to upgrade to.
The whole process is detailed in our previous TiVo upgrade how-to, so refer back to it if you need help. There are two screws under the cable card cover and one on the back consisting of T-9 and T star screws. Note you often need to press 'Del' or F2 at the initial power on screen to get into the bios settings.
Make sure you have the source drive and destination drive after in the correct order. As such if you plan on moving a drive or drive image from one Tivo to another it is advisable to deactivate all the various apps before doing the copy.
How to upgrade your TiVo HD with WinMFS
Image showing the inside of the TiVo Premiere. Note that this approach only works with 4TB drives e. Secondly if you use cable cards with your Tivo you may need to re-pair these depending on how aggressive your cable operator is with authentication [ rarely required ].
Be careful not to touch the power supply. The Roamio upgrade method is remarkably simple and has been a long time coming, however there are a couple of things you need to be aware of. Although I recommend you read through the entire article first to get an understanding of the type of replacement drive needed etc.
Note the US version of the Premiere has no stickers or warranty 9.33 stickers preventing you opening the case.
You can either wait 30 seconds for things to continue or press the space bar to continue. Then just press the "Start" button and wait. Updated 5th Jun - Make Windows approach more prominent. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Tivo HD WinMFS upgrade "Not A Tivo Drive" + looping reboot, issues!
You should then be good to go. Malware uses web apps to turn PCs into conduits for attacks. As the source drive select your original TiVo drive and under target select the new 'larger' TiVo drive. The procedure is self explanatory. Poking around, it looks to have a winmfe amount of flexibility as well -- support for SATA-USB adapters, merging drives, splitting drives, etc. Win,fs then follow the instructions. However there are a couple of things you need to be aware of.
It's simple to use, the backups make it relatively safe, and it opens up DIY TiVo upgrades to a whole audience that would be scared away from a Linux command-line. You can winmds the latest version from this thread registration required. Hence you will need something bigger than this.
Reattach the cables, place the lid back on and secure the 3 case screws. This works best if the two drives are identical models but can also work if they are winmffs the same size or the new disk is larger in size than the original disk. Note this will not preserve any shows and you will be required to repeat guided setup.
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