[Fox-one OSX]

Wasn t really sure if this should have gone in the Multimedia forum or anywhere else so I am trying here.

Got a Sony Tivo 30 gig that I want to hack by increasing the HD capacity, just bought a maxtor 30 and 100 gig drives for that purpose. I need to make a backup of the Tivo drive to the 30 gig maxtor so that if my upgrade with the 100 gig does not work I could put back the backup in.
The Tivo hack FAQ is usefull for PCs and Linux machines but nothing is mentioned about backing up a Tivo drive using a Mac.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

PS: I was reluctant to get a Tivo at first btw but this is really a cool tool...very much recommended for $10 a month you get tons of stuff to watch, no more channel surfing since I got it

[Fox-one OSX]

Apparently there may be a way with Hard Disk toolkit 4.5 to use the device copy option...as anyone tried this?

[Cake]

Check out this thread from the TiVo Underground. I got a 12 hour Phillips TiVo for $120 off of UBid.com, but I havent upgraded it yet (Also, just opened the box to my new GeForce3 that I bought two nights ago on ubid for only $255!).

Anyway, hope this helps and I'm sure if you do a search over there on the TiVo Underground you can find what you need.

Good Luck.

[Fox-one OSX]

Thanks dude...

problem now is that the drive inside Tivo is a Quantum and it is Locked. There are App out there on PCs to unlock the drive but I can t find one on Mac. That means that the 30 gig shows itself as a 9meg drive instead of 30gig in HDT making it impossible to copy.
A tutorial on how to unlock the drives would be cool

[Scott_H]

I hate to say it but you may want to find someone with a Linux box. I know (have been told) that Linux can "clone" a drive. Doesn't matter the formatting or anything because it just copies bit by bit the data on the drive. Sounds like what you want to do. Format the larger drive then clone the 30 onto the new one.

HTH