Imaging DTivo Drive A to a new Drive without loosing movies?

[celledge2]

First off, someone correct me if this will not work on a DirecTivo 
Unit!!

I recently did this on my stand alone unit. Once you get your drive 
recognized, you should be able to use the Tivo boot CD (or floppy) to 
duplicate the drive. This is outlined in the Hinsdale FAQ found here:

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/ 

Example: dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdb bs=32k (make sure you have the 
correct devices for your setup)

I upgraded my factory drive to a 40GB drive and added a second 40GB 
drive and I kept all of my recordings. Depending on the speed of the 
pc you use to do this, it may take a while. It took around 30 
minutes on my 1.4Ghz Athlon and I had over 6 hours of videos.

Chris

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "Ray Miller" <Raym@s...> wrote:
> I have a question about my DSR6000 DirecTivo unit, here is the story
> leading up to why It heated up about 2 months ago, all I could 
smell is
> burn electronics and the video was distorted severely and it just 
made a
> hissing sound on the speakers. I immediately shut it down and 
called
> Tivo, just to find out my warranty had expired one week previous. 
They
> told me to unplug it and let it alone, that it may cause a fire if I
> leave it plugged in. (by the way, this is before I even mod'ed it at
> all!) A couple of days later I decided to hook it back up and try 
to
> see if I could find the problem (I went to college for
> electronics\computer technology, but hadn't done the electronics 
side of
> it for a while!), but to my surprise it worked again. Just as if I
> never had a problem with it! I then decided, since I didn't have a
> warranty any more, to mod it and install Xtreme. When I went to 
install
> the Xtreme, I had to remove the drive and install it my computer; 
that
> is when I discovered that my computer's BIOS would not see my HD
> (Quantum Fireball 40GB) I changed jumpers and did everything but 
nothing
> worked. Finally I dug out an old HP Brio computer and tried it 
again;
> it worked! I put it back in the Tivo and I finally had a bash 
prompt.
> All seemed well for several weeks, until I received my Turbonet 
cards in
> the mail and I need to remove the drive again to install the drivers
> from the CD they had on their site. I must have tried for several
> hours, but could not get the BIOS to recognized the drive, it would 
just
> freeze when it auto detected it. I even tried manually assigning 
its
> LZ, Comp, etc., with no success. I jumped on Maxtor's site (they 
are
> not doing the RMA and work for Quantum) and discovered that the 
drive
> was still under warranty; well, I received the drive and this 
finally
> leads me to my question.....
> 
> How can I image the drive from my old "A" drive to a brand new "A"
> drive... same size, same type of drive, etc? 
> Would Ghost or Drive Image work? 
> Has anyone done this before?
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really don't want to loose 
all
> of my movies!! I will be able to slowly extract them and get them 
to
> CD, but I don't have enough time before I need to send back the old
> drive before they bill me $250 for the new one!!
> 
> Thanx,
> Ray