Hinsdale upgrade is it difficult?
 

Has anyone out there gone the route of the Hinsdale upgrade on the unit (I
have a RCA/Directv unit DVR40). Is it worth the iunvestment of buying the
tools to do it or just having it done?

If you are talking about replacing the stock drive with a larger drive, I
did it and it could not have been easier. Alot yourself an afternoon to get
it done. It won't take that long but if you try to rush it, you will
frustrate yourself and possibly mess things up. That is how I went about it
on my two Hughes HDVR2s when I replaced one 40 gig drive with a 160 gig and
the other 40 gig with an 80 gig. I kept both original drives as backups but
I may someday add one of them back into the 80 gig unit. The first swap was
a learning experience and the second was a simple repeat that took no time
at all. I recommend printing out the instructions and checking things off
as you do them.

Good luck.

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Has anyone out there gone the route of the Hinsdale upgrade on the unit (I
have a RCA/Directv unit DVR40). Is it worth the iunvestment of buying the
tools to do it or just having it done?




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Hinsdale instructions are a piece of cake. I used them to substitute a
new larger drive for the stock one. I think it took me about an hour.
Easy as can be.

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 08:36:00 -0500, "Dot Com News"
wrote:

Has anyone out there gone the route of the Hinsdale upgrade on the unit (I
have a RCA/Directv unit DVR40). Is it worth the iunvestment of buying the
tools to do it or just having it done?

In article [email protected],
"Bryan" wrote:

If you are talking about replacing the stock drive with a larger drive, I
did it and it could not have been easier. Alot yourself an afternoon to get
it done. It won't take that long but if you try to rush it, you will
frustrate yourself and possibly mess things up. That is how I went about it
on my two Hughes HDVR2s when I replaced one 40 gig drive with a 160 gig and
the other 40 gig with an 80 gig. I kept both original drives as backups but
I may someday add one of them back into the 80 gig unit. The first swap was
a learning experience and the second was a simple repeat that took no time
at all. I recommend printing out the instructions and checking things off
as you do them.

Good luck.


Even the best instructions out there may be problematic for someone
that doesn't understand passing arguments to a command line Linux
instruction.

Not everyone is comfortable about opening their PC and messing with IDE
cables. There are folks that would have trouble making their PC boot
into Linux.

If you fall into that group then for peace of mind just go to
http://www.weaknees.com where you can buy a kit where you just drop a
new drive into your TiVo in about 10 minutes time.


For those that do know their way around a PC, and have been opening
their boxes for years to add upgrades, then yes Hinsdale and Weaknees
instructions may be found easy.

"Dot Com News" wrote in message
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Has anyone out there gone the route of the Hinsdale upgrade on the unit (I
have a RCA/Directv unit DVR40). Is it worth the iunvestment of buying the
tools to do it or just having it done?



I looked at the Hinsdale instructions for way over six months before I
finally saw that it may be possible for me to actually do it myself. I
think I was overwhelmed by all of the A B drive combinations that are
included. I don't really understand any of the commands I typed in, but I
understood what they were supposed to do.

What I did was hand write each line I needed to enter (with a short
explanation of what each was supposed to do so that I could more easily
follow what I was doing) in the order I needed to enter them including when
to connect what hard drive where. Looking at a small hand full of commands
to enter is a lot less daunting than searching through all those pages of
endless instructions and command lines that sort of all look the same.

--
M. Evans

"Bryan" wrote in message
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If you are talking about replacing the stock drive with a larger drive, I
did it and it could not have been easier. Alot yourself an afternoon to
get it done. It won't take that long but if you try to rush it, you will
frustrate yourself and possibly mess things up. That is how I went about
it on my two Hughes HDVR2s when I replaced one 40 gig drive with a 160 gig
and the other 40 gig with an 80 gig. I kept both original drives as
backups but I may someday add one of them back into the 80 gig unit. The
first swap was a learning experience and the second was a simple repeat
that took no time at all. I recommend printing out the instructions and
checking things off as you do them.

Good luck.

I just upgraded my Hughes Series I using the Hinsdale instructions and it
was a snap. I'd add one thing to your post: do an image backup of the
original drive before doing anything else -- it's cheap insurance.





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Has anyone out there gone the route of the Hinsdale upgrade on the unit
(I have a RCA/Directv unit DVR40). Is it worth the iunvestment of buying
the tools to do it or just having it done?




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