Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Derry, NH
Posts: 3

I have been at a total standstill on the very beginning part of this project. I am running an 800MHz P-III with a 30G IBM hard drive. This drive is partitioned into 3 logical drives. I dual boot with Windows 2000 on the C drive and Windows ME on D. I purchased a new 120G Maxtor hard drive and printed out the instructions from Hinsdale. I was unsuccessful in booting from the CD, so I downloaded MFS Tools for floppy booting. Then I got the hard drives all in place as Hinsdale instructed. When I booted the TiVo drive reported out as 10MB. I got out of MFS and rebooted to go on line and get qunlock from 9thTee, forgetting that I still had the TiVo drive connected.

This is where the trouble started. I have a boot disk for Windows ME and I put the qunlock onto that. I can boot normally with that floppy and run qunlock 2. It reports back that the unlock code was sent and to reboot and check the size. I have done this several times and it still reports back as 10M. I have tried setting the BIOS to None and turning off Plug&Play, which hasn't helped at all.

I know Hinsdale warned against booting into Windows 2000 with the TiVo drive attached and I wonder if this is my problem. I can put the TiVo drive back into the TiVo and everything is fine, except of course I don't have the new capacity I wanted to get.

Can anyone help?

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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
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The WinNT signature makes the TiVo drive unbootable, so you clearly don't have that problem.

You did see that qunlock says 'power cycle' (ie, switch off) and not 'reboot'?

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Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Derry, NH
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Yes, and I'm certain that I had powered down completely. However, I just shut down again, reinstalled the TiVo drive as Secondary Master again, booted up and the drive reported correctly! I don't know how you fixed it so fast over the Internet :-), but I appreciate it. I probably didn't power down today, figuring that I had tried everything the last time. I'll continue on now and should have better luck. Thanks again.

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Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Derry, NH
Posts: 3

Success!! Just one more thing please. In response to a suggestion from 9thTee I purchased two memory chips. I've not seen anything in this forum about that. Is it advisable to install them (I do have that skill) or is it pretty well unnecessary? Thanks

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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
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Most people seem rather disappointed with RAM upgrades. Fitting them means soldering SMT chips to the TiVo mainboard.

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: W. Yorks, UK
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Originally posted by Robert S
You did see that qunlock says 'power cycle' (ie, switch off) and not 'reboot'?

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DOH! Now I feel really stupid

RTFM!!!!

Used dlgchk last time round which just reboots not power cycles. Thought I was going mad for a minute there! Thank God for this forum!

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