ATV out of Warrnaty, need to Clone HDD

Wicked1 said:

Ok, so have a 160GB ATV and I want to backup the drive or Mirror it to another in case the drive fails, otherwise Apple would swap it and Charge me $99 for a replacement.

Ideally I would love to Clone the drive with a 250 and plop that in, in case the 160gb dies.

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AppleComputer said:

A clone is not needed, you can use swiss army knife to create a factory install of atv os from mac within os x.

I did this when my ATV original HDD died, popped in a new one and ran through these steps with a usb drive and os x computer, very simple procedure.

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Step_2_Create_the_USB_Key_(from_Mac_OS_X)

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Restoring_the_Apple_OS

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Steve247 said:

Step 1 is blank!

Does this solution allow for a replacement drive to be like a factory restored aTV or does it install an alternative OS?

Thanks

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