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Notes on Successful SAT-T60 Drive Upgrade in Win 2000 Pro
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Posted by: das Monkey

I didn't see anything about this, so I thought I'd post my experience for anyone who might face the same problems I had. Huge thanks to hinsdale and everyone else for the wonderful information.

The short: Use Partition Magic instead of Win 2000 Computer Management

The long:

Original TiVo Setup:
Factory SAT-T60 - updated to 2.5-01-1-011
Quantum Fireball 40gig A Drive

Computer Setup:
Windows 2000 Pro
Primary Master: 120gig WD NTFS
Primary Slave: 80gig WD NTFS
Secondary Master: CD-RW
Secondary Slave: DVD-ROM

According to hinsdale's How-to, booting a TiVo drive into Windows 2000 will add signature files to the drive that could screw things up. I wasn't in a position to repartition either of my drives, so here's the situation I created:

I added an old ATA-33 controller to my machine and hooked up a new 1.6gig drive. Booted into Win 2000, used Computer Management to format it as FAT32, shut everything down and restarted with this setup: (btw, I know I didn't need the ATA-33, but it was just easier that way)

Primary Master: 1.6gig FAT 32
Primary Slave: 120gig Maxtor (brand new)
Secondary Master: CD-RW
ATA-33 Master: 40gig TiVo A drive (as hde)

Booting from the boot CD, linux recognized all of my drives properly without any problems. I followed throu hinsdale's how-to without a hitch until the mfstool backup. It would get about 3.5% through and error with a generic BACKUP FAILED. Reading some posts around here, I saw that people got a similar error when it was a free space problem. But I had more than enough space for the uncompressed backup, let alone the compressed one.

I got the updated mfstool and tried again with the same result. So I reconnected everything back to Win 2000 and took a look at the 1.6gig drive: a single 1.6gig partition. I killed the partition, cleared the disk, and reformatted it to FAT32. Reconnected the drives, back into linux, same problem. Reconnected the drives, and back into Win 2000. For whatever reason, I thought I might get better results using Partition Magic 7.0, so I did. I killed the partition, created a new one, and formatted it to FAT32 all using Partition Magic 7.0 this time. Reconnected the drives, back into linux, and this time mfstool backup went through perfectly, as did everything else.

I have no idea what Parititon Magic did differently from the Windows Computer Management utility, and once I got everything working, I wasn't really prepared to investigate it much further. Anyway, on the off chance someone encounters the same problem I had, maybe they'll find this helpful.

das

P.S. What happened to my account?