Apple TV 250GB Upgrade complete!!
By following most of the directions found hereI recently upgraded my 40GB AppleTV to 250GB.
I used this drive I found at newegg
I tried very hard to do exactly the steps in the tutorial for creating the new media partition and formatting it. After many attempts ending in failure I gave up and tried the way I've outlined below. I think it's easier than the extra steps in the tutorial which don't actually gain you anything anyway, you'll still have to re-sync all your media to the new drive either way, so take the easier way.
To make things a little easier for you if you decide to do the same thing here's what worked for me and will likely save you time and frustration.
1) I bought a used/refurbished 40GB appletv off of ebay to help keep costs down.
2) I used this drive adapter from Amazon with a firewire drive enclosure instead of USB and shortened the drive copy times significantly. I made a full backup copy of the original drive and only copied back the 1335 blocks to the new drive as suggested.
3) I followed the directions exactly up until the step which deletes slice 4 (the Media slice) from the drive. It looks like "gpt remove -i 4 disk2 (although my disk was disk6). Do this step and then the step which is "sudo rm -rf /Volumes/OSBoot/.Spotlight-V100" on the OSBoot partition ONLY, eject the disk and then place the new drive into your appletv.
4) The appletv will boot. Migrate to 'perform factory reset' and do it. After a few minutes your appletv should show that it has 228GB (or so) of free space. Perform the upgrade to the new version of the AppleTV software (2.0.1 as of this writing) and you are all set. Be patient - the upgrade takes a while and requires numerous re-boots but expect it to finish in under 30 minutes.
Hope this helps you if you try this upgrade path.
posted by John D. @ 1:08 PM
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