Tivo Hard Drive To PC
 

Has anyone ever heard of moving a tivo hard drive to the pc? I need
extra storage on my Pc and I have an extra 120 GB tivo drive. It is
the Maxtor Diamondmax model and I have only got it to show 10 mb of
storage on my pc so far. Any help would be most appreciated!

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:22:44 -0600, hypnotoad wrote:

Has anyone ever heard of moving a tivo hard drive to the pc? I need extra
storage on my Pc and I have an extra 120 GB tivo drive. It is the Maxtor
Diamondmax model and I have only got it to show 10 mb of storage on my pc
so far. Any help would be most appreciated!

I moved my old original Tivo drive to a PC and had to use gunlock to
unlock it.

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lid (hypnotoad) wrote:

Has anyone ever heard of moving a tivo hard drive to the pc? I need
extra storage on my Pc and I have an extra 120 GB tivo drive. It is
the Maxtor Diamondmax model and I have only got it to show 10 mb of
storage on my pc so far. Any help would be most appreciated!

A 30 second Google Search reveals:

http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=...=faq02.015.htp

hypnotoad wrote:
Has anyone ever heard of moving a tivo hard drive to the pc? I need
extra storage on my Pc and I have an extra 120 GB tivo drive. It is
the Maxtor Diamondmax model and I have only got it to show 10 mb of
storage on my pc so far. Any help would be most appreciated!

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...77#post2046577

DiskUtil - a safer alternative to qunlock

quote:Originally posted by BlueRanger
Hi, I posted the attached DOS disk utility to the UK forum
a few days ago. Since then I've modified it to make it safer
to run on unlocked TiVo drives.
Dave

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had a 120 GB Maxtor (6Y120P0) that
suddenly decided it was a 10 MB disk (Max LBA: 20000) after having been
run in a TiVo. Using "diskutil /PermUnlock 2" did the trick.

It appears that the factory default for these drives is the same as
TempUnlock, in that the lock will be applied after once being used in a
TiVo.

-Joe

hypnotoad wrote:
Has anyone ever heard of moving a tivo hard drive to the pc? I need
extra storage on my Pc and I have an extra 120 GB tivo drive. It is
the Maxtor Diamondmax model and I have only got it to show 10 mb of
storage on my pc so far. Any help would be most appreciated!

What OS? diskpart.exe on WindowsXP, downloadable for Win2000, will clear
the disk signature and allow you to use the drive.

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hypnotoad wrote:
YOU GUYS RULE!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!
MASS PROPS!
YOU ARE ALL GODLY!!!


I'm going to guess that it fixed his problem ;-).

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:18:57 -0500, Randy S. wrote:
hypnotoad wrote:
YOU GUYS RULE!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!
MASS PROPS!
YOU ARE ALL GODLY!!!


I'm going to guess that it fixed his problem ;-).

Yeah, but it broke his keyboard.

Dave Hinz wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:18:57 -0500, Randy S. wrote:

hypnotoad wrote:

YOU GUYS RULE!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!
MASS PROPS!
YOU ARE ALL GODLY!!!


I'm going to guess that it fixed his problem ;-).


Yeah, but it broke his keyboard.

Apparently the shift key and the "1" key got sticky ;-).

Randy S.