[stingray_on]

I took HD to a computer shop and he hooked up to his computer and it did not recognized the hard drive. The 300 GB HD was used for a tivo but I upgraded to a DVR and now I want to use it for an external. My imac G5 has time machine and by using an enclosure , I can use it as an external backup.

I called Weaknees, where I bought the HD to upgrade my old tivo and he said the HD is linux-based and just google reformat hard drive.
I did google it and I am not sure what the solution is especially when the computer does not recognize the hard drive.

If someone could do me a monster favor and tell me how to do this. Simple dummies steps like
1. download a linux boot up disc or right click on device manager and click re-format
2.change the master to slave and vice versa, etc

Thanks in advance.

BTW, does the reformat of the HD does it has to be done on a mac and not a PC or does it matter, once reformated and is cleaned hooked it up with a mac and install os x later?

[jrbuergel]

You can download the GParted partition tool, and burn an image of that iso file, which then you can create partitions and format file systems with it. This is the web site located here; http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php , or use; http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

[TRS-80 vet]

The TiVO box writes to a RAW partition. I found this out while trying to transfer video files from TiVO to my computer internal HDD.

And I also upgraded to a DVR, and used the TiVO HDD 160G as external storage (until it filled up).

Now I have 2 x 1.5 Tb drives filled