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Upgrading my AT&TiVo w/ WinXP
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Posted by: bluearchtop

"Do not boot into Windows NT/2000/XP with your original TiVo drives attached as a signature can be attached to the drive that will create problems. You will need to have/create a primary or extended fat32 partition on your primary boot drive connected as primary master and know the partition table (run fdisk -l to display partitions). Then you can follow these upgrade instructions ...

I'm not sure I fully understand that.

I have 3 drives in my system.

C drive (active partition) is a 60 GB NTFS
D drive 30 GB NTFS
E drive 10 GB FAT32

Can I do something with that E drive? Or do I have to use Partition Magic to shrink my C drive and add a small FAT32 Partition? Thanks

Posted by: stevel

The primary admonition here is - do not boot Windows NT/2000/XP with your TiVo disk attached.

Now.. if all you want is to bless a disk, you don't need any of your PCs disks attached, just boot the special CD into Linux after attaching your new disk as primary slave or secondary master or slave.

If you want to do a backup, you'll need one FAT or FAT32 partition visible, and your E partition should do the trick. Just page back through the Linux boot messages to see what it gets called.

Posted by: bluearchtop

Cool, makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

Posted by: bluearchtop

quote:
Originally posted by stevel
The primary admonition here is - do not boot Windows NT/2000/XP with your TiVo disk attached.

Now.. if all you want is to bless a disk, you don't need any of your PCs disks attached, just boot the special CD into Linux after attaching your new disk as primary slave or secondary master or slave.

One more followup -- If I'm just adding a 2nd drive, there's really no reason for me to backup my original drive, right? And if "blessing' a 2nd disk, do I even need other drives? Can I unplug all my PC drives and just have the upgrade drive as primary master and boot into Linux?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: mohanram

BackUp Backup BackUp

Do it. Otherwise you may repent later. Technically you dont need to do a backup. But once u bless the 2nd drive and add it to the TiVo, the two drives are married. And if in case you encounter a drive failure, the you would wish you had kept a backup.

You dont need to have other drives when you are blessing a 2nd drive. You can indeed unplug other PC drives & just have the upgrade drive as primary master and boot into Linux.

Posted by: bluearchtop

Thanks, I didn't know that. I will definitely back up!

Posted by: stormsweeper

quote:
Originally posted by mohanram

You dont need to have other drives when you are blessing a 2nd drive. You can indeed unplug other PC drives & just have the upgrade drive as primary master and boot into Linux.

generally, even witrh all the other HD's isconnected, you want the TiVo drives to be on hdc/hdd (secondary master and slave). this is more important for series 1 TiVo's where the drives are byteswapped, as the boot CD (and i'm guessing Dylan's Boot Disk) don't byteswap hda.

Posted by: Chuck_IV

quote:
Originally posted by stormsweeper

generally, even witrh all the other HD's isconnected, you want the TiVo drives to be on hdc/hdd (secondary master and slave). this is more important for series 1 TiVo's where the drives are byteswapped, as the boot CD (and i'm guessing Dylan's Boot Disk) don't byteswap hda.

I attached mine as primary slave and i worked great, so hdb works fine.