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Re: Help! Tivo 40gb hard disk reuse in Windows PC
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Help! Tivo 40gb hard disk reuse in Windows
PC
- From: Jon Fautley <jon@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:14:19 +0100 (BST)
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Tom Dubourg wrote:
> Help!
>
> My Tivo now has 120Gb disk installed and I now have a spare 40Gb
> disk to install as the main drive in a new PC.
>
> Problem is that fdisk will only create a 9Mb partition! I've deleted
> the old partitions as well.
>
> Any idea how I get the PC to recognise the full 40Gb?
Sounds like the drive is locked. Google for 'tivo drive unlock' and it
should tell you how to unlock it.
This is some sort of 'protection' to stop you buggering about with the
drive in a PC, iirc.
I think the Xbox has a similar method.
Jon
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