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Possibly to undo qunlock?
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Posted by: bmorley

I have a series 2 40 G Tivo

After realizing that 40 hours REALLY meant 11 on highest quality,
decided to upgrade to a 120G hard drive.

Placed the Tivo 40G drive into the computer and it appeared to be
too small. In retrospect, I think the BIOS was not supporting a
drive of that size.

Seeing that it appeared small, presumed I needed to use the qunlock
utility.

Needless to say, nothing changed and now the hard drive is no
longer functional and I don't have the backup to make a new
drive.

Is it possible to undo the damage (my impression was that it
probably wasn't, in the Hinsdale FAQ) of using qunlock?

Thanks,

Brian

Posted by: Robert S

If the drive is locked, it will report as 9 or 10Mb. If it reports as anything else, it's not locked and running qunlock on it is hazardous.

If you run qunlock on a Maxtor drive that is not locked, it will become permanently, irreversably, locked. No-one has ever managed to get any of the data above the 10Mb mark off a drive in that state. This also prevents the TiVo booting.

You'll have to download a backup and use that to image your new drive.

Posted by: bmorley

So it appears I have irreversably killed the drive...was afraid of that.

Which now brings me to your last statement...backup image.
I have looked but cannot find one for the 24004a.