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Ultimate TV (UTV) Hard Drive Upgrade

Posted by timothy on from the geniuses-meet-the-idiot-box dept.

BubbaJoeBob writes: "I just read this thread over at the AVSForum that jeffm7 was able to upgrade his UTV 40GB drive to a WD 100GB drive. Other users are reporting that they were also successful using the WD 120GB drive." And aside from ending up with an apparently useless original drive, this sounds much less painful and involved than various homebrewed TiVO upgrades; according to posters on this thread, it's nearly plug-and-play (with a necessary download step in the middle).

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  1. You need to low-level format old UTV drives by cscx · · Score: 2, Troll
    If you can't seem to use a drive after you've removed it from a UTV, that's because it's probably using a special partition (not 0x83) that can't be read by any conventional software, or the disk has been written to in an unintelligible way. So what you need to do is completely wipe the drive with a low-level format, i.e., writing zeroes to the drive. Then you can repartition it as 0x07 if you want to be able to get productive use out of it.

    Here is a link to Western Digital's utility that allows you to low-level partition their ATA drives (the WDC seems to be popular in these devices):

    http://www.wdc.com/support/download/dlg/dlgdiag.zi p