Hi Guys I just purchased an ATV from ebay with a dead Hard drive.

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to getting it up and running with a new drive. I have found plenty of links on how to upgrade drives but they all require the original disk image. is there a way around that..

Thanks
Matt

h**p://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4433630

Read this thread http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/f98/51502-2.htm

What a life saver I will give this a shot.
Was beginning to think it may not be possible !!

Thanks
Matt

Do you know if I can copy this using a mac and not a linux box.

a Mac IS an Linux Box. Terminal should work the same.

@greggsympington: NOPE, that's not true! Though there many terminal commands UNIX tools are quite the same, the kernel (and linux IS just a kernel) is different. Mac OS X uses the darwin/BSD kernel.
Just to be correct. ;-)

This question comes up again and again. I point people to atvusb-creator and the atv-bootloader wiki which has all the info required to completely rebuild an internal AppleTV disk from any AppleTV update from scratch.

I've also walked several users thought how to do this here and over at the awkwardtv forums. Search and you shall find them.

You don't need an image of the disk.

Oh man do I need some help I am trying to follow the oops I haven't got a backup wiki.
but with no success

penbuntu login: root
Password:
# wget http://mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-46...694-5428-3.dmg
Connecting to mesu.apple.com (198.142.23.96:80)
2Z694-5428-3.dmg 100% |*******************************| 168M 00:00:00 ETA
# dmg2img 2Z694-5428-3.dmg atv.img

dmg2img v0.3a is derived from dmg2iso by vu1tur (to@vu1tur.eu.org)

2Z694-5428-3.dmg --> atv.img

reading property list, 108354 bytes from address 176991022 ...

decompressing:
opening partition 0 ... 0.00 % ok
opening partition 1 ... 0.00 % ok
opening partition 2 ... 0.66 %Segmentation fault
# mkdir atv-update
# sudo mount -o loop -t hfsplus atv.img atv-update
-sh: sudo: not found

I have tried downloading the file 5 or 6 times but I keep getting this segmentation error!
I am doing it via telnet on a mac to the ATV.. I even tried using ubuntu live cd but had other issues with that.. I've been at it for hours and searched every where but just can't find any answers.. can someone please help
Thanks
matt

looks like the wrong version of dmg2img is on penbuntu, opps, my bad ignore the Segmentation fault error.

also since you using penbuntu under a root login, you don't need to use sudo to elevate your privileges

# sudo mount -o loop -t hfsplus atv.img atv-update
-sh: sudo: not found

you need to watch the disk usage under penbuntu. you are taking a 300+ MB disk image and converting to another form of diskimage so right there you are pushing 1GB.

Thanks for the quick reply.
I will use my other usb stick its much larger.

So if I get the error it still should work OK?

Also i cant see anywhere how I should prepare the new hard drive. before I use it
Thanks davilla. man you know your stuff
I have seen your post every where.