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Recovering a Quantum Fireball
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Posted by: bsasso

I successfully upgraded my Tivo by adding a larger drive, it is a 2 drive Tivo, so now I have a 30gb Quantum Fireball drive available.
I have tried to use that drive in my PC with no success. The Bios sees it as a 9gb (or mb cant remember) drive. I looked in the Maxtor site for the specs of the drive:

Cyl 16,383
Heads 16
Sectors 63

I entered this manually but that does not give a 30gb drive.

I tried using linux (know nothing other than following instructions for the upgrade). I typed fdisk, eliminated partition, created a dos partition with cfdisk.

Still the bios does not recognize the drive correctly, however I went in to XP and it was able to format it as 30gb and use it. Then I rebooted and the bios messed it up again.

Any suggestions? I don't want to throw it away, the drive was working perfectly fine in my Tivo.

Thanks,
:up:

Posted by: GBL

search for "qunlock.exe".

Posted by: ronsch

Check these two posts for the procedure I used to recover an old Tivo drive for use in a Windows 98 environment.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...0245#post930245

It would be worth it to try the unlock process first.

Posted by: bsasso

Thanks, :)

I ran the dd if=/dev/zero..... but I did not know how long that process took, thus after a long while I rebooted. Then I ran DOS fdisk and created a full partition. It was recognized as 28gb!
Then I rebooted now the bios recognizes it as a 30gb drive, however I still get a error at boot time warning that I can have problems with the drive.
I went into xt and formatted the drive and copied files to it. all fine, however I continue to get the bios error. Any idea how to get rid of it?

Thanks again,

Ben

Posted by: ronsch

The DD process should have taken less than 10 seconds.

The process in those posts was to use the Linux pdisk to create the windows partition, not the dos fdisk. I had all kinds of trouble trying to get the dos fdisk to work.