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No drive prep necessary when going to use in TiVo. The restore process takes care of that automatically and wipes drive clean before adding its stuff.

Quickview not necessary. You can use any drives you want.

 

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You don't need to format it, but you do need to connect up both Tivo drives to the computer per Hinsdale to get the drives working together.