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TiVo A Drive and WinXP
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Posted by: Grozny25

During the process of upgrading my the hard drive in my Sony Standalone TiVo, I booted into Windows XP three times, although I never accessed the drive. Afterward I saw the footnote on the MFS Tools Step by Step Upgrade that said not to do this. I have reinstalled my drive and have not seen any problems. What sort of issues can arise from this mistake? Is it simply a not working thing or could it cause lock-ups, slow access, etc.? If I have caused a problem, will cloning my drive fix it or have I permanetly corrupted my drive and any future drives that I might have created from it? Will I end up crying myself to sleep because my TiVo doesn't love me anymore?

How did my uneducated kind ever conquer Jerusalem?

Any information would be greatly appriecated.

Posted by: mayesk

I am no expert but, I would say you are OK if you are working fine now. For NT in general it deals with nt writing a signature on the drive. As long as you did not access the drive you should be OK..........

Posted by: Robert S

You're a very lucky man.

If NT does write its signature to the drives they become unbootable, so obviously no signature has been written to your drives.

Posted by: ducko

I booted up to XP and with my original A drive hooked up. Then I read the instructions on how to do the upgrade with MFS Tools. HUGE MISTAKE! Now all I get is "welcome. powering up" . I have a Sony directivo SAT-T60. Can anyone help me out with a little somethin somethin? PM please

Thanks in advance!

--Tim

Posted by: stormsweeper

Just take a backup with MFS Tools and restore it back to the drive.