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What happens is you qunlock a drive that isn't locked?
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Posted by: Mayonnaise

I decided to expand my 14-hour Series 1 standalone by replacing the original drive with a 120gb Maxtor.

I was following the hinsdale guide to the letter and got as far as booting from the CD with all my drives (c:, new 120gb drive, TiVo drive) and checked the capacity of all three.

hda 80054mb (my main c: drive)
hdb (new 120) showed as something less than 120gb, but much more than a 10gb locked drive (around 40gb, I think)
hdc 13701mb (old TiVo)

Assuming that this is what a locked 120gb looked like, I QUNLOCKED the drive, which is now stuck at 10gb. I've QUNLOCKED a few more times, to no avail.

(1) What did I do wrong?

(2) Is it unusual for a brand new drive to be locked as opposed to the old TiVo drive?

(3) What the hell do I do now?

Thanks!

Posted by: Robert S

The drive wasn't locked, the BIOS just didn't recognise the full size of the drive.

When you ran qunlock on it you blew up the drive's firmware. Normally qunlock has no effect on a drive that isn't locked, but this is a known problem with some Maxtor models.

There's no fix for this, you'll have to return the drive.

Posted by: GBL

(1) Use qunlock only on drives that were installed in TiVo and show a size of about 10MB. Right, that's MB.

(2) New drives cannot be locked (because drives are locked by TiVo OS).

(3) check jumpers, run diagnostics, return drive if needed.

Posted by: Mayonnaise

Woops. So, is there anything I can do to fix the drive's firmware?

Posted by: Cletus

RMA it to Maxtor.