I am posting this knowing it's pretty specific to Acronis True Image and thinking the odds are maybe small that anyone knows the answer, but ya never know.
I've had my series 2 box for a good while now and decided it was probably a good idea to make a backup image of the drive to keep on hand for when the drive finally dies.
I popped it out of the Tivo box and put it in a USB2 drive carrier and booted to the Acronis boot CD. While Acronis could see the disk, it thought the disk was empty so wouldn't allow it to be imaged. As a second test I put the drive in as a slave in a pc and tried again, with the exact same results.
I use this s'ware to back up Linux disks at work (mail server etc.) without a problem. Does Tive do something special to their disks to trip up imaging s'ware like this or is there something else going on here that I haven't thought of yet?
George
I've had my series 2 box for a good while now and decided it was probably a good idea to make a backup image of the drive to keep on hand for when the drive finally dies.
I popped it out of the Tivo box and put it in a USB2 drive carrier and booted to the Acronis boot CD. While Acronis could see the disk, it thought the disk was empty so wouldn't allow it to be imaged. As a second test I put the drive in as a slave in a pc and tried again, with the exact same results.
I use this s'ware to back up Linux disks at work (mail server etc.) without a problem. Does Tive do something special to their disks to trip up imaging s'ware like this or is there something else going on here that I haven't thought of yet?
George