[rokonrdr]

son-in-law gave me the tivo from dish service that told him he paid for it so it was his. not having a use for the service, I removed the Western Digital 80gb HD and put the jumper on slave w/master. I have done this many times with HD's from the junk (curbside). If there is nothing of interest or they are too small to bother with, I disassemble them and use the rare earth magnets for my garage. You can hang pretty large objects from the side of the tool box or the compressor tank or the gas grill with them. Anyway, this one is an 80 so I wanted to keep it. The device manager claims it is working properly but it is not initialized, and it does not show on the "My Computer" listing of the drives. Any other cheapo guys ever do this, get a tivo had drive for storage on thier PC? any help will be apreiciated. I will tell you some good jokes you can share with you kids or grandkids.(thats where I get them. My grand kids are funnier than I am) thanks in advance, Dave Landy

[JSanguancheu]

Hi Dave,

Is the HD recognized correctly in the BIOS?

Assuming you have Windows XP, Right-click on My Computer, select Manage, and then click on Disk Management. Is the drive there? If so, what is it showing as?

[rokonrdr]

in disc management, I was able to click on "initialize disc", but it still does not show in "My Computer". Device manager claims device is working properly.
thanks. here is a joke. What kind of horse is depicted on the back of the new state quarters? A Quarter Horse. also, What do you call cheese that does not belong to you? Nacho cheese.

[rokonrdr]

forgot. it says "unallocated" for disc 1. Disc 0 is my c drive and seems to be fine

[JSanguancheu]

OK. Assuming you didn't need or want anything on that new HDD, unallocated is a good sign.

You will need to create a new Primary Partition from the unallocated space on Disc 1 (the 80gb HDD) and then format it.

See the link below for detailed steps:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

[Hughv]

Tivo is formatted with Linux, so you'll need to reformat it to use it.
How do you find out if a girl is ticklish?

[arknorth]

LOL!

I've actually did that - I have a TiVO drive in an HP clunker I use as a backup unit on my network at home. I simply ran my MaxBlaster on it, even though it was a Western Digital 40GB, and first initialized it, then zeroed out the drive. Once that was done, I stuck it into the confuser and installed XP in it. Works great, plus it had the extra bonus of being so thin that I was able to seat it on top of a normal thickness HD in a single HD bay - cheap and dirty twin drives!

A-N

[rokonrdr]

I like the price and iI got windex. i don't understand exactly what you said in your reply, but I take heart that I might double my storage for Free. I like Free. any way, I' ll try to try what you said and see if I can get it working. By the way, you mentioned partition. I have a partition d: on my c: drive. I aome how managed to install windows XP in that D: area there. if I restart, i must choose which program i want. c: or d: drive and if i don't choose, it defaults to the empty version and scares my wife that i trashed the computer. again.
you wanna talk clunker, that's half the fun. Keeping it running. for free. any help will be real gud. and i don't need to know anything about girls tickled, cause I already know everything I need to know about women. HAHAHAHAHAHA

[arknorth]

MaxBlaster is/was a HD setup disk provided by Maxtor with their new HDs that they sold (prior to Seagate buying them). It includes some neat programs and is a nice tool if you can get your hands on a copy. Specifically designed for Maxtor drives, I've used a number of options on other drives as well.

The Zeroing program alone is worth having this disk. It takes an HD and completely zeroes (wipes) each sector, leaving no trace of previous data on the drive, including any bad sectors caused by data glitches (a physically damaged drive is a physically damaged drive - don't expect miracles here!).

It also came with a library of every HD made by every HD maker (to the date the disk was made) and their jumper settings - interesting that this was included, even though it specifically is meant for Maxtor drives.

The third program it came with was the formatting and partitioning program – another great tool, especially if you were looking for ways to convert between FAT32 and NTSF.

Speaking of partitions, was this D: drive there originally? It probably was that HDs original recovery partition, and would have been where XP (or Me… uhhhh [shiver]) was seated, so plunking a new XP in there should be fine.

A-N

[rokonrdr]

the d:rive was the recovery cahe or someting like that I managesd to fill it with a copy of xp that is already on the c: drive. I don't think I need to have it in there i have the disc. i paid $100.00 US for out of my own pocket. any way my g: drive shows now but there is nothing in it or on it. I need to install an os? can I install the windows program ther so i can store stuff in this drive? I am sorry I am so dumb about the program stuff. really. but I'll read up . thanks for the help

[JSanguancheu]

Hmm.. Just to clarify..

Disc 0, you 1st physical HDD, has two partitions using C: & D:
Disc 1, the 80gb HDD you just added, is now partitioned and formatted, and showing as drive G:

What is taking up drives E: and F:?

Is the G: drive showing in My Computer as about 74-75Gb?

I would do the following:
1. Download and install Maxblast. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...00f5ee0a0aRCRD (scroll down and click on I Accept)
2. Use Maxblast to Clone the C: partition to the G: partition
3. Now turn off the computer and swap HDD positions. Make sure the jumpers on both HDDs are set to CS (cable select).
4. Turn on the PC and the new HDD should now be the primary HDD [C:] and boot from there with all your files.
5. Make sure everything copied over correctly and is working.
6. Wait a few days to give yourself time to make sure you no longer need the files on the old HDD.
7. Now you can use Maxblast or Windows Disk Management to delete the two partitions on the old HDD and repartition it as one and format. Then you'll be able to use the old HDD as D: for extra storage.