Re: Help! Tivo 40gb hard disk reuse in Windows PC

["egelbeertje" <r_d_k@xxxxxxx>]

You could give it a try to enlarge the existing partition , or to
delete it and recreate a fresh one , by using Partition Magic
software. (install the 40 gb as a master on a different channel has
the most chance)
This has helped me a few times already when converting drives from
Ntfs/Linux to fat/fat32 etc.
I remember a similar symptom with a linux partition, I could not get
rid of it until killing it that way. After the old linux partition
was gone I could use any normal means to create partition sizes at
will.

if your drive is locked hardwarewise this won't help I guess.

rgds,

Rob



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@h...>
wrote:
>
> Is it a Maxtor dirve?
>
> It sounds like it could possibly be the "locked drive"
problem?....
>
> Take a look in the usual places (TiVo forums etc.) for the QUNLOCK
> utility....
>
> sorry not to be any more precise, but none of my drives have ever
turned out
> to be locked, so I've never needed to know any more than that!... :-
)
>
> Paul G.
>
>
> >From: "Tom Dubourg" <thomas.dubourg@m...>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: [ukha_d] Help! Tivo 40gb hard disk reuse in Windows PC
> >Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:07:34 -0000
> >
> >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?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >
> >
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