I just did this upgrade on my Tivo HD two days ago with a Samsung F1 1TB drive. I only had one SATA adapter on my computer so I had to do a "Backup", swap drives, then "Restore" as opposed to having both HDD's hooked up at the same time. You lose your saved shows that way but all of your settings get transferred over just fine. Save the image file to a CD when you are done for a nice backup in case your new drive dies.
It might also be important to note that WinMFS also has a "supersize" option that you can run after the backup/restore process. Supersize frees up even more space on your new drive. With my 1TB drive, I had 131 HD hours after the restore and 144 HD hours after the supersize.
I couldn't be happier and the whole process was under an hour.
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I just did this upgrade on my Tivo HD two days ago with a Samsung F1 1TB drive. I only had one SATA adapter on my computer so I had to do a "Backup", swap drives, then "Restore" as opposed to having both HDD's hooked up at the same time. You lose your saved shows that way but all of your settings get transferred over just fine. Save the image file to a CD when you are done for a nice backup in case your new drive dies.
It might also be important to note that WinMFS also has a "supersize" option that you can run after the backup/restore process. Supersize frees up even more space on your new drive. With my 1TB drive, I had 131 HD hours after the restore and 144 HD hours after the supersize.
I couldn't be happier and the whole process was under an hour.