How to Upgrade AppleTV HD

[Aadeshh]

Hi all,

I have AppleTV with a 40GB hard disk. I want to convert it to 160GB internal 2.5” PATA HD. I don't have idea about this. Please help. Thanks in advance.

[Ernest]

You need to keep very patience for that to upgrade the convert it to 160GB internal 2.5” PATA HD. You should have TORX 8 and 10 driver to remove the screws and USB to 2.5” PATA/IDE adapter. You also need to basic understanding of the Terminal application. AppleTV HD is also a two-part process for upgrading. check out that and reply.

[Venator]

First you need to do following process for upgrading:
# First slowly remove the rubber covering on the bottom of the AppleTV.
# You will find that there is one screw in each corner and 4 screws that hold the 2.5” PATA drive to the bottom of the AppleTV.
# After removed all 8 screws, expose all of its internals.
# Now removed the HD from the PATA connector.

Check it and reply.

[Quentin]

You can also do migrate the partition structure on the old drive to the new drive. You can see that there is disk2s1. You can also find out that Factory Restore partition on your AppleTV. You have not seen is the EFI partition. Open Terminal and type in diskutil list. this will help you all the information about disk migration. Best of luck.

[Paxton]

There is also short method is present. You will need to connect both the old and the new AppleTV hard drives to the computer. Run diskutil command from terminal window. Mostly the drive is located in the /dev/disk2 and the other will be at /dev/disk3. Determine which one is new. Type dd if=/dev/disk2 count=1335 of=/dev/disk3 bs=1024k in terminal command. This will copy the contents of HD located at /dev/disk2 onto the drive at /dev/disk3. Try it and reply.

[Simond]

I am using long method that requires one USB to PATA connector. We can rubn following command in terminales windows to connect and setup the HD.

dd if=/dev/disk2 of=/Users/User_Name/Desktop/AppleTV.img
dd if=/Users/User_Name/Desktop/AppleTV.img count=1335 of=/dev/
disk2 bs=1024k
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk*
gpt remove -i 4 disk2
diskutil list
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk*
gpt show disk*
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk*
gpt add -b 3141672 -i 4 -s 74998455 -t hfs /dev/disk*
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk*
diskutil eraseVolume “Journaled HFS+” Media /dev/disk*s4
ls -a /Volumes/Media
s -a /Volumes/OSBoot
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/OSBoot/.Spotlight-V100