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NTFS and backups
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Posted by: Mayonnaise

If I'm looking to backup while I'm upgrading with as little fuss as possible, can I get the image from the old TiVo drive to a CD without a Fat32 partition?

Posted by: maharg18

I don't believe so... All the info I've seen on NTFS compatibility says it's read-only when booted to MFStools.

Posted by: Robert S

No. You'll need a FAT partition to write the backup to. Just put a small FAT partition on your new drive and backup to that.

Posted by: Mayonnaise

Put the Fat partition on the new (soon to be in the TiVo) drive or my good ol' C drive?

Posted by: zaknafein

Your new drive. Then boot back into Windows (making sure to remove the original TiVo drive) copy the backup to your NTFS partition, then reboot into the mfstools disk, and restore the backup to your new drive. You can mount NTFS ro, you just can't mount it rw.

I have an older 2 gig drive in my PC whose dedicated purpose is storing my TiVo backups.

Posted by: Mayonnaise

Silly question, but how do I put a FAT partition on my spankin-new drive--it hasn't been formatted except for the low-level that it comes with.

ALso, doesn't Hinsdale say to copy old TiVo to the C: and then copy to the new drive?

Posted by: Robert S

I would do with FDISK and FORMAT on a DOS bootdisk, but apparently you can do this in Windows too. A 1Gb partition would be plenty. It can take ages to format large drives.

While you do the backup your new drive will effectively be your C: drive.

Posted by: Mayonnaise

So, completely remover my C drive, boot with new drive attached, format fat partition. Reboot with MFS, with Tivo and new drive attached and make the copy?

Posted by: Robert S

Yes.