Need help troubleshooting Series 2 TiVo

Why don't get an eclosure that will connrct to your PC with a USB cable. If your PC is already up and running when plug in the TiVo drive, the PC will not try to boot from it, so it will not harm it.




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In article , "meHomey" wrote:
Why don't get an eclosure that will connrct to your PC with a USB cable. If
your PC is already up and running when plug in the TiVo drive, the PC will not
try to boot from it, so it will not harm it.




Just going into windows XP will write a sector to the Tivo drive rendering it
useless.

Does it create something you can see, like a "System Volume Information"
folder?
Or is it even a file system that XP can read? (I thought it was FAT32)


"GMAN" wrote in message
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In article , "meHomey"
wrote:
Why don't get an eclosure that will connrct to your PC with a USB cable.
If
your PC is already up and running when plug in the TiVo drive, the PC
will not
try to boot from it, so it will not harm it.




Just going into windows XP will write a sector to the Tivo drive rendering
it
useless.

meHomey wrote:
Why don't get an eclosure that will connrct to your PC with a USB cable.

Most disk diagnostics programs require that the drive be
directly connected.

If your PC is already up and running when plug in the TiVo drive,
the PC will not try to boot from it, so it will not harm it.

It's not a problem of booting. Simply connecting the drive to
a PC running XP will cause XP to look for a globally unique ID
in a particular sector of the disk. If its not there, one will
be written there, overwriting critical TiVo data. At least,
that's how I understand it.

-Joe

GIGA wrote:
Does it create something you can see, like a "System Volume Information"
folder?

No, XP overwrites sector 0 of the TiVo disk. Destroys the disk label
and part of the boot code.

Or is it even a file system that XP can read? (I thought it was FAT32)

XP has problems with the disk label on a TiVo disk; it does not see
any DOS partitions and considers the disk to be completely unformatted.

The TiVo disk partitions are not FAT32. The place where FAT32 is
used is when running Linux from a TiVo-aware boot CD, and you want
to save the TiVo data onto another disk. The other disk has to be
formatted as something that the Linux kernel understands: either
FAT32 or as a Linux partition.

-Joe