If you follow me on Twitter you probably already know that a couple of weeks I went ahead and upgraded the hard drive in my Series 3 TiVo. In the past, I’ve upgraded several TiVo hard drives using a number of different solutions including, an upgrade drive from WeaKnees and DVRupgrade as well as the officially supported expander drive . Since I’ve tried all of these options, I decided that it was about time that I get my hands a little dirty and attempt to upgrade my Series 3’s drive using WinMFS and a stock hard drive that I purchased from Amazon.com.

mfslive.org is the place to go if you want to take an off the shelf hard drive and install it in your TiVo. mfslive provides FREE two software packages that allow you to backup and restore your DVR’s software to a new drive. For those of you who are familiar with Linux and a command line interface, mfslive offers a Linux live cd called MFSLive Linux Boot CD .…