If you see the TiVo drive reporting as 9MB or 10MB, it means that the drive is locked. You'll need to go to www.9thtee.com/qunlock.exe. This executable will permanently unlock your drive.

Locked Drive: If your Quantum/Maxtor drive (some drives labeled as Maxtor may actually have Quantum firmware) is locked (reporting as 9-10MB on boot up) then you should unlock it now using your qunlock dos boot floppy (see step 4). Press Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait for the 'No more processes ... ' to exit and power down your PC. Place the qunlock dos boot disk in your floppy drive and then power up your PC.

At the A:\ prompt type the following command:

(This command assumes you have your TiVo drive connected as Secondary Master)

qunlock 2

4) Download Latest Upgrade Utilities

If you have a CD accompanying these directions, you can use that. If you wish to make sure there are no more recent utilities released, you may check www.tyger.org/MFS for any new releases. If you can not boot off your CD-ROM drive, you can use the floppy disk image included on the CD or download the latest floppy disk image and use that.

If you wish to use a new CD image, or you do not have a CD accompanying these directions and wish to use the CD, you should download the latest CD image from the MFS Tools download page. You will need a CD-R or CD-RW drive (Or a friend with a CD-R or CD-RW drive) to create a CD. Use your CD burning software to burn an ISO image (Not a file) using Data Mode 1, Block size 2048. You may need to adjust your PCs BIOS boot options to ‘Boot from CD’ if not configured.

The Boot CD will generally automatically unlock any TiVo locked Quantum drives. However, if your TiVo comes with a Maxtor drive or you are using a new Quantum or Maxtor drive in your planned upgrade, then you may require another utility to unlock this drive if it is ever placed in the TiVo for testing/use and then removed later for further upgrading steps. If you run into a locked drive (total size reports as 9-10 MB) during this upgrade process then use the qunlock utility to unlock. You will need to create a DOS boot disk to run this utility from, and you will need to run it every time you take your drive out of your TiVo.

If you do not have a CD-R or CD-RW drive, you will need to create a bootable floppy. Follow the instructions in the \floppy directory of the CD, or the README that comes with the downloaded floppy disk image to create a floppy disk image.

If you are using GoBack, you will want to disable it, as it can cause corruption of files created while in a Linux boot environment.