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Fat32/NTFS
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Posted by: bconklin

I am ready to upgrade my Tivo Series 2. I am going to add a second 160Gig WD Drive. I have read alot about how if your computer boots into XP with an NTFS Drive, it will damage your Tivo Drive. My question is that I recently upgraded one of my computers from Win98 to XP but the File System is still Fat32. Will this be ok, or should I go through the process of creating a Fat32 partition just to be safe. Thanks.

Posted by: dahacker

I believe the XP boot problem happens regardless of what type of partition XP resides on. Just don't boot into XP at all. I personally highly recommend just removing your XP drive and using another one laying around.

With the current tools, you can't CREATE a backup image on NTFS. It will be read only.

Since your setup has XP on FAT32, you will be able to backup your image to the FAT32 drive with no problems.

Posted by: bmclaurin

Yes, that is my understanding as well: (1) Don't boot into XP (no matter what type partition it resides on) with a TiVo drive attached, and (2) don't backup your TiVo image to an NTFS partition because it will be read-only. I followed bconklin's advice and simply removed my XP drive altogether and replaced with an old 4 GB FAT-32 drive from an old PC in order to do the backup image. Hope that helps.

Posted by: Robert S

If you don't have an old drive available, just put a 2Gb FAT partition on your upgrade drive and use that for the backup phase.

Posted by: bconklin

Thanks for your help.

Posted by: KyleLC

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Originally posted by bmclaurin
(2) don't backup your TiVo image to an NTFS partition because it will be read-only.

Why would that be a problem since you're only going to read it anyway in order to restore it to your TiVo drive? (if you ever need it) Also, if you back it up onto a CD as many people do, it will be read-only anyway unless you use a CD-RW.