Comments on: Apple TV Harddrive Upgrade Tutorial

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By: AG

AG — Mon, 09 May 2011 21:57:00 +0000

I followed this using terminal to the letter. it removed the files off the source hdd, and wouldn’t transfer anything to the new hdd. I can’t even restore to the original hdd.

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By: Slaffko

Slaffko — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:36:00 +0000

Scratch all that. Getting a noname usb-pata adapter solved all the problems below – the moral of the story being a proprietary external drive enclosure may only accept the drive it shipped with.

By: Slaffko

Slaffko — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:05:00 +0000

Oh, and also this:

****:~ Home$ diskutil verifypermissions disk5
Error starting permissions verification for disk5: Unrecognized filesystem (-9958)

By: Slaffko

Slaffko — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:04:00 +0000

I am trying to upgrade the original AppleTV 160GB to a 320GB WD Scorpio Blue.

My Mac Pro 10.6.6 will NOT recognize the original ATV 160GB hard drive – I did a fresh factory restore, upgraded the ATV to the latest firmware, and I still get “The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer| error – no partitions mount as a consequence.

diskutil list shows the device, shows the size, but does NOT list any partitions:
”
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: *160.0 GB disk5
”
No method therefore works as there are no partitions to copy – dd’ing the contents seems to be doing something but as I understand I won;t be able to resize partition 4 if no partitions are visible. In any case, the quick count=1335 method didn’t work resulting in an unbootable appletv.

The PATA-USB enclosure certainly works as I am able to format and use the new 320GB WD in it.

Please help.

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By: Eric71911

Eric71911 — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:06:00 +0000

In reply to Frankyching. Yes, you CAN put a SATA drive into an Apple TV. There is an excellent and very compact adapter sold on eBay that does just this. The source is China, so shipping takes a while, but I have put a 750GB SATA drive into an Apple TV, got it working with XBMC and the Crystal HD decoder and verified in iTunes that all of the extra hd space was available for storage. I see no reason (other than extra heat, possibly) that a 1GB Western Digital hard drive could also be installed in an Apple TV. I've done it, I know it is possible.

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