Comments on: Apple TV Harddrive Upgrade Tutorial

By: bobbyjoe

bobbyjoe — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:35:18 +0000

The flashing ? mark is probably just the connector not seated fully on the hard drive. you can try to hook it up without the bottom on to see.

By: micherutledge

micherutledge — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:37:53 +0000

Is there a way to format a new HD without the old HD? My content was wiped out by the new ATV update and I need to keep my old HD pristine until I get a good file recovery utility. I would just like to create a new “factory fresh” format on a spare HD and get the ATV up and running again. I'll use the old one to get as much of my content recovered. Thanks!

By: pelerinage

pelerinage — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:39:38 +0000

I've been trying to upgrade the original 30GB to a Samsung 160GB with no success. I've been using exclusively the terminal option. I even followed Ken's (2 years ago) additional instructions.
Upon booting the AppleTV I get the logo with the flashing “question mark” on top. The HD is rightly plugged. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

By: johnbamboo

johnbamboo — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:20:12 +0000

Hello Kontrabasci, In fact I used the same drive a WD 320 Scorpio. I am facing the same problem that the Appletv wont perform a Software update (from 2.02 to 2.4 and also will not perform a factory restore.
It also will not install ATV flash. I don't think – but I am not shure that this is related to the Harddisk. From where did you get this information? I believe there is another problem. I resized the media partition to fill the available space on the disk. Maybee the tool messed up something there. I used drive genius….

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By: Kontrabasci

Kontrabasci — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:18:47 +0000

I just upgraded my ATV drive from 40 – 320GB. It is a WD 320 Scorpio. I understand this drive and a Samsung drive do not take a “Factory Restore” after it has been transferred. Is anyone out there who had the same problem or know how to resolve it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

By: gavroche1973

gavroche1973 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:54:12 +0000

As FRED said two months ago, don't use the "count=1335" switch ... even if it takes a very very very long time to achieve copying (15 hours for me, dubbing a 160Go original ATV HDD to a newer 250Go ... and, i must say a disk-to-disk copy, using two PATA/IDE - USB2 adapters ...).

When dubbing with the "count=1335" switch, the ATV (with new new HDD) booted ... but suggest immediately a "restart", "reset" or "factory restore" ... but all of these options failed (as said by numerous of users in comments, including on engadget.com website about the same topic).

Concerning the expansion of the Media partition, i didn't try a factory restore, nor the terminal method described above... but bought ipartition beacuse i didn't wanted to lose the benefit of using an old (and obsolete) atvflash usbstick.

One more thing, i've executed the command lines concerning .spolight-v100 files.

By: Alan Foley

Alan Foley — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:35:21 +0000

Also has or can this be done

In theory, you can replace the 2.5″ HD with a large capacity 3.5″ driver by using a 2.5 to 3.5 convert cable and mount the drive outside of the AppleTV box.

Alan

By: Alan Foley

Alan Foley — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:21:59 +0000

Can an external hard drive be connected to the Apple TV and if so what is it.

Alan