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C:\ drive question

I am preparing to do the hinsdale upgrade to my series 1 philips DTV-Tivo box this weekend with two 120GB Seagates. I have a question about using non-XP C drive. All three of my computers are now XP and I was thinking of using my old 3.2GB WD for making the backup (DSR6000R01) with version 3.1 tivo (I think, but will confirm). Is there any specific reason I have to load windows 98 or ME? I was thinking of just formatting it fat32 and not installing an OS. Save some time and hassle plus old drive good storage for backup. Will this work? Hope everyone has a blast in Vegas. My wife is going this weekend with her sister. I get stuck with the kids, but a great opportunity to rip into my Tivo box!!!

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Yes, you just need the filing system. The presence of other files on the disk (whether they form a bootable Windows system or not) is irrelevent.

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Thank you very much! I have studied the guide and with a little luck I should be in business! I just picked up my 120GB drives at the door. I am wondering if I need to run the Seagate ATA/100 utility it mentions in the provided guide. Probably not if my series 1 is ATA/33 or 66. Is it better to run this and use a 80 pin cable anyway? Any performance gained by doing this, because I have bucket loads of cables and parts stashed away?

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Well, did the whole hinsdale deal today. Two 120GB seagates, backup, test, and full blown deal worked awesome! had to mind the jumpers when doing the 4 IDE port mfsrestore. Strange thing was the quantum fireball drives were difficult to figure for jumpers because one had no jumper and just not labeled like I am used to. I deal mostly with WD and IBM (Now Hitachi). No big deal though. Up and running with ~225 hours of recording pleasure. I will wait to see if green screen shows up before doing attempting any swap file tweaks. Thanks to all here, this is awesome. Talked with several people in my high tech field and no one has ever heard of doing this. My geek level has just been upped a few points. Thank you all posters as I read for many hours this week prior to this.

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Sounds good. If you still have that old drive you used to do your backup with, plug it into a pc. Even your xp machine is fine, as it is formatted in fat 32, locate and burn your tivo.bak file to a cdr, should be at the root of the drive. Or copy it to another hard drive. That file is now all you will ever need if you have to restore your tivo again in the future, or have a drive fail. It should fit on a single Cdr.

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No performance will be gained, as the 3.2G will highly unlikely be better than UDMA 33. The S1 Tivo will probably be ATA33 or less, as I believe it uses a 40 wire cable. ATA66+ use the 80 wire cable (S2 uses 80 wire, AFAIK).

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Yes, the TiVo is UDMA33. The Seagate utility is probably a replacement Windows driver, not something that could be used with the TiVo.

Some people find that the 80-way cables work better in their TiVo (that is, the TiVo doesn't boot with the original cable), but one assumes this is due to damage to the original cable or everyone would have this problem.

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All good input! I used the old cable finding it is formed for the two drives and the 80 pin cable I found was not, but could have been modified. So far this has been up and running since my last post. I have been reading about the Tivo-to-go stuff and now I am wondering if that will work with series 1 DSR6000R01???? If not, I will consider series 2 this fall. Thanks everyone!

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HMO (TTG will require HMO) is for Series 2 stand alone TiVoes only. I don't see much prospect of it being extended to any other TiVoes.

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