Tivo Roamio DIY Fan And Hard Drive Replacement, Installed 3TB Hard Drive And New Cooling Fan

This video will walk you thru the replacement process of the cooling fan and the hard drive on the Tivo Roamin OTA DVR. I purchased two of these back in 2016. About one year ago one of them developed a fan motor noise. About one month ago, July 2021, the hard drive failed on the second one. There are companies out there that will make these repairs for you, but if your like me you won't want to pay the high cost of those repairs. My two Tivo Roamin OTA DVR's were both 1TB hard drives. I replaced them with 3TB drives. Please like subscribe and share if you find this video helpful. Be safe and be blessed.

[brsolutions]

I want to thank you for this video. My repair worked great. I bought the fan from Amazon, took about 5 days to come in, but installed. The steps where you put the mike next to the fan, told me what was wrong with my device and it all went together well. Took me about half an hour start to finish. I had the right T6, T10 etc. Good fix. My wife is very happy because my TiVo is so quiet. I did not change the hard drive. It's a 1T and I've never filled it up. Thanks, thanks, thanks.

[minitrucker]

I didn't do the bottom two fan screws either. I ordered a cheap 5 pack of fans and I just had to install a second one. came back here to a brain refresher on opening the case. I put a 1TB Samsung SSD in mine. Boots really fast and the minus load super fast. great video.

[simonbyrd]

I've put a big honking 3" fan right on the heatsink of my Bolt, which I leave the cover off of now. And I learned my lesson on replacing HDs- put them on a PC SATA connection, use DiskPart to clean them, format them (FULLY, not quick, even though it can take hours), and re-clean them, THEN install them in the Tivo. Now, what would be nice is if you could have your season passes stored on a cloud and the system restores them. It would be a tiny amount of data.

[RT-yite]

Thanks. It's crazy to see how many customers of TiVo are facing the same issue. It seems the company knows and do this low quality parts to force the customers to buy new ones. Very bad practice. I will not buy TiVo anymore now that I know

[dkncjets]

Is there achance that blowing the fan withcompressed air will get rid of the noise ? If not what about spraying it then with a lubricant?

[jerhrbst]

Nice Gerald. Thanks. 1) When you replace the hard drive, does Tivo still recognize it and you? I have one with the lifetime subscription to the OTA TV Listing service. I would not want to lose that. 2) Also are there any problems associated with the function of the unit going to the large drive? 3) How quiet is the new fan? 4) Do you have to do a completely new setup -- or is there a way to save to the web and dl back to the new HD?

[EddieRosario-sd]

Is there any way to transfer the old recordings in the original hard drive to the new hard drive?

[elfridegroh]

Does the operating system reside on the the hard drive? If so, what happens after you replace the drive?

[cmgtbone]

Can someone post a link to the fans used for this or something similar?

[bhanna]

How does the hard drive have to be formatted