gwyrdd benyw's Journal: Tivo log: I hate windows

Okay, so I bought a 80GB hard drive (Maxtor 80.0GB Ultra 133 (7200rpm)), and the plan was to install it into Julian's PC, move the contents of his 30GB drive to it, then format the 30GB drive for the Tivo and install the appropriate OS and software on it.

I had lots of problems.

Windows sucks. Even after cloning the contents (with Maxtor's Maxblast utility) and reinstalling ME onto the 80GB drive, I was experiencing periodic data corruption. (Yes, I checked the jumpers many times. It took me a few days just to get the machine to recognize a second drive, so trust me I got that part down.) :)

Julian freaked out and decided that if there was any chance of losing his data, he didn't want a bigger drive, so couldn't I just use the new drive in the Tivo and leave his 30GB drive alone?

Sure, okay, so I'll have more capacity, but instead I'll have to pay the cost of the drive (instead of him putting it on his academic grant as an upgrade to his computer).

Somewhere along the way, I broke the floppy drive, and some of the tivo tools require floppy boot disks. Okay, I'll have to take the drive somewhere else for those steps.

I created an mfstools 2.0 boot CD for formatting the drive and installing a Phillips HDR112 3.0 image, and then created a Dylan's boot floppy (linux) and a 3.0 TN floppy.