previously hacked hard drive not recognized by PC

[bbodin]

I tried searching, but couldn't turn up anything.

I had hacked my HR10-250 (installed new drive, made a backup of existing drive, installed new kernel, setup tivowebplus, tytools, etc.). All was working ok but then rebooted one time and it hung at "Please wait" screen (I'm was wondering if it's because one time I didn't stop tyserver correctly before rebooting or similar, but I really have no idea). If I put the original drive back in it works fine, but the new hacked drive now gets me the "Please Wait" screen, whereas it was working before.

Anyway, I had given up and was going to try to copy the kernel over again, etc. but now when I connect my harddrive and boot with LBA48 boot cd, my previously hacked harddrive is not recognized (I only see hdb, which is my cd rom) and it reports no info for hdc (for the harddrive I had connected). I even tried booting up in dos and trying to unlock the drive with diskutil.exe, but that reports that it's not locked.

Any ideas? And if I can't get it recognized, should I just reformat the drive and start over? Is there any special thing I need to do to make it "Bare" as it was when I first got it out of the box? Is a clean format enough? Can I do that format through Windows (connect it as a slave, boot to windows, and format it?)

[Gunnyman]

sounds like if it isn't recognized by tivo OR a boot CD then it's gone bad on you. does it show up in your PC BIOS?

[bbodin]

sounds like if it isn't recognized by tivo OR a boot CD then it's gone bad on you. does it show up in your PC BIOS?

good question..I just checked and no it does not show up in my bios (which makes it even worse...how do I format it if the bios doesn't even recognize it?).

I've checked the jumper several times and it's set at master and I have it connected to secondary master. Any suggestions on how to proceed?

[Gunnyman]

the drive is in all likelihood toast.
Proceed to replace that drive. :p

[bbodin]

the drive is in all likelihood toast.
Proceed to replace that drive. :p

nice. So do you think it was a bad drive, or did I do something specifically to fry it? (to avoid doing the same again). Is there anything I can do (not shutting down tytools server, etc.) that could have caused this, or just bad luck? And better yet, it's probably still under warranty...any issues with returning it as a bad drive?

[Gunnyman]

bad luck
nothing running on a hacked Tivo will fry a HD.
Heat and powerspikes and mechanical failure are the most likely culprits.
Dependomg on who the manufacturer is, you MAY be able to get a new drive cross shipped to you. I have done this with Maxtor in the past.

[bbodin]

thanks for the help. I suspect heat then because I thought it looked to be running warmer than my original drive (can't remember the degrees though). Guess I should add a fan for the next one.