I perked up quickly when I saw this thread & discussion, as the larger drive capacity & software update for MPEG4 certainly extends the life of the TivoHD. ) Although I had a 2TB Hitachi I was going to drop into this Tivo in place of the Seagate, I realized the 3TB WD Green (WD30EZRX) was a better choice than a 7200 RPM drive. (My Mom is a "can't teach an old dog new tricks" type now that I set up & upgraded a TivoHD for her, she says she doesn't know what she'd do without Tivo. I would like to build it up with a 3TB drive as a guest room alternate so I can pass my other TivoHD (2TB w/318 hrs) to a family member. This is a backup TIVO to my Roamios, so not mission critical. Here's my scenario: TivoHD with a failing 1.5TB Seagate AV drive (this will make 4 failures in 4 Seagate drives, guess what brand hard drive I'm not buying anytime soon? ) Software version is 11.0m. Put another way: I'm fine with a blank 3TB drive, as long as it works to capacity. Am I correct in presuming that MFSTools is the only tool that can get the job done, partially because of reliance on software version 11.0j or newer? (Guessing the software update is key to the larger capacity file system.) I'd prefer to only grab enough essential info from my existing drive to get the new one up & running (rather than wait for what might be a time-consuming & extensive copy/backup operation). Normally I'd want to preserve & copy whatever I can, but given the tenuous nature of my existing drive I'm more concerned with just getting the new drive active. So I'd rather know I was restoring to a rock solid drive to start with.Īlso, has me wondering if WinMFS v9.3f (isn't it from 2009?) has any issues with Windows 10 64 bit and again has me wondering if I'm working from the wrong computer / wrong version of windows.Ĭlick to expand.I'm fine with using MFSTools 3.2, but is there a more streamlined way to migrate to a bigger drive? The most commonly recommended path I've seen is to run MFSTools & execute the command Plus I am not 100% confident in the power supply on the S3 OLED and wondering if it contributed to the old drive failing. But I'm sure someone has run into this scenario before. Too many scenarios and I'm not sure what path to go down next. and btw, the dock is also esata - is that preferred over usb2? using the usb2 dock? or maybe I just need to connect to the dock to an older version of windows to get the WinDFT software to see the hitachi drives. So should I take the step of testing from hgst boot disk? does direct connecting to sata on the motherboard matter vs. Pre-2013 Drive Fitness Test Version 4.16 (Pre-2013)Īnd my hitachi drives are in fact pre-2013 but the hgst download page above doesn't show one. So my next thought was to burn a hgst boot disk and take win10 out of the picture. Is there a Windows 10 issue with the hgst software? I noticed the hgst software has a copyright of 2012 so perhaps it's a Windows 10 incompatibility?Īlso, I have the drives connected to a usb2/esata dock rated for drives to 6TB - kingwin model EZ-Dock. whereas Data Lifeguard for Windows sees all 4 drives fine, and data lifeguard extended test reports passed on the 2 hitachi drives, but wondering if I should rely on that vs. Also doesn't see an ntfs Windows partitioned Seagate drive either. tried to launch it with "run as administrator" and same thing. Tried HGST Windows Drive Fitness Test (WinDFT) from:īut it's not seeing 2 blank unpartioned hitachi drives (a 500GB & a 2TB) I've tried, but it's not even seeing the windows 10 (64bit) boot drive either which is a WD. For testing hitachi drives, what's the preferred tool in 2016? didn't WD aquire hgst years ago, so is the current Western Digital Data Lifeguard for Windows best on hitachi drives? And looking at hgst website it appears their tools may be outdated.
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