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existing computer hard drive question
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Posted by: Kevin Clark

I have an old hard drive that I am not using. Is there a way to format the disk with a tivo boot image or anyother tivo software that will reformat an existing drive and then put the tivo os on the hard drive?

Posted by: Robert S

Just use MFS Tools as described in Hinsdale. It pays no attention to what's already on the drive.

Posted by: Kevin Clark

what command would I use to take a boot image from a cd and put it on an unformatted hard drive

Posted by: Robert S

It's just the same as in Hinsdale except you mount the CD rather than the C: drive. If your CD is secondary slave (as is usual) then the mount command would be

mount /dev/hdd /mnt/dos