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Replaced original SVR 2000 drive; now want to access old one
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Posted by: fishbean

Hi, everyone!

As one of the early TIVO users, I'm just getting into the upgrade arena now. It took a failure (I think) of my hard drive to force me into buying a 120GB drive...so I just replaced it in my TIVO, and it works fine.

But now I want my shows that I didn't watch before the drive crashed! (Two 24s, Two American Idols, Two CSIs, Survivor...is there a place to get those online outside of Kazaa?) So...I put the "failed" drive into a machine of mine at home, as the slave drive. I'm able to boot the machine OK, but I can only get Windows to "see" an 8MB drive (not 40GB, as it should).

Any ideas as to how to make this happen? Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Bennett/Fishbean

Posted by: Robert S

It probably won't help you get at your shows, but the 8Mb thing is drive locking. Use qunlock (ob warning: qunlock can damage drives other than the Quantum drive from the TiVo) or DiskUtil to unlock it.