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TiVo Drive Upgrade |
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Written by Brian Crumrine
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
I had a hard drive failing our DirecTiVo - freezing video, slow play, fast play, etc. The unit was well out of warranty, DirecTV suggested replacing the unit all together. I thought I would tinker with the TiVO a little to see if I could fix it before throwing it away and getting another.
I first tried to fix the drive using SpinRite. SpinRite couldn't recover the failed portions of the drive.
I did a little research into what to do and found very detailed instructions on how to do this in the Hinsdale howto. Even though Maxtor is not recommended by a lot of people, I grabbed an old 80GB Maxotr hardrive and copied the TiVo drive onto it, put it in the TiVo and it worked. Wow! I added 73 hours +/- to the TiVO! |
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Creating DVD Backups |
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Written by Brian Crumrine
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
OK, lately I have been having a really fun time with setting up a video jukebox so that we can watch any of our movies on demand. We are taking DVDs and turning them into files the computer can read (and compressing them).
One of the first things you need to do is start "backing up" your DVDs into computer-readable files. I have had really good luck using the method described later in this post. You do have to have a DVD reader and a computer that is capable of playing back these movies. We have good luck with playback on the kid's computers (PIII 700Mhz).
The free tools I am using are DVD Decrypter and AutoGK (both supported by donations). Here are the links - get and install the software and follow the instructions that follow:
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