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Disk image of pdisk'd, blessed second drive?
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Posted by: bayguy

I just received my Quantum 30 gig drive that is recommended for the procedure. As I said in a previous post, neither pdisk or genAddDiskTiVoID is present on my Tivo and I don't have Linux installed.

I have a request for you folks that have successfully done this procedure that would be extremely helpful for me and I'm sure for many others. Here's my idea:
* "Zero" out every byte of every sector on the second drive using a utility like Hex Workshop
* Use the DOS app Dolly (ftp://ftp.bke.hu/pub/mirrors/sac/utildisk/dolly.zip) to make an image file of a 30 gig Quantum LCT 10 (QML30000LB-A) drive that has been pdisk'd and genAddDiskTiVoID'd. Use the XHDx parameter so INT 13 will be used to access all the sectors. You can chunk the IMG files out in any size you want. The total of all the IMG files at this point will be 30 gigs since Dolly doesn't do any compression.
* Use your favorite ZIP program to compress the resulting image files. They should compress down to a very small ZIP file.
* Post or email me the ZIP file so I can extract the image files to my new drive.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE would someone do this for us non-Linux folks?

Thank you,
Rich

Thank you,
Rich

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