Tivo upgraded hard drive need to reinstall windows xp on it for some reason!

ddrmanxbxfr · 03-26-2006, 12:04 PM

Hi i need to reinstall windows xp in my tivo upgraded hard drive!It's an western digital 80 gb hard drive do i have to unlock it with diskutil or i can just format it with windows xp setup.. ?

Thanks im waiting for your anwser

ttodd1 · 03-26-2006, 01:31 PM

What are you trying to do?

ddrmanxbxfr · 03-26-2006, 01:52 PM

Im trying to install windows xp on an western digital drive that is in my tivo (i instantcaked it) and i want to know if i need to unlock it !

Im waiting for your anwser plz thanks

Gunnyman · 03-26-2006, 02:18 PM

fdisk it within XP

bengalfreak · 03-27-2006, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by ddrmanxbxfr

Im trying to install windows xp on an western digital drive that is in my tivo (i instantcaked it) and i want to know if i need to unlock it !

Im waiting for your anwser plz thanks

As far as I know Quantum and Maxtor drives have been the only ones that needed to be unlocked. You're not planning on putting this drive back in your Tivo at some point are you?

Markman07 · 03-27-2006, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by bengalfreak

As far as I know Quantum and Maxtor drives have been the only ones that needed to be unlocked. You're not planning on putting this drive back in your Tivo at some point are you?

"Are you waiting for his answer, plz?" :-)

With XP I don't even think you need to run fdisk first but I could be wrong since I haven't used a Linux based drive to install Windows XP on lately.

Gunnyman · 03-27-2006, 09:13 AM

you need to fdisk it to put a windows compatible FAT on it then format it.

bengalfreak · 03-27-2006, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Gunnyman

you need to fdisk it to put a windows compatible FAT on it then format it.

Not really. The XP install disk will take care of all of that for you. There's no need to run fdisk separately.