Quote Originally Posted by st200 View Post
As for the bios report on the drive it says 9mb.
Yep. That's a locked drive. TiVo's will lock a fair percentage of Maxtor drives regardless of whether they are original factory fitted units or not.

I have not tried Qunlock as soem have reported it as being risky and turning drives into paper weights.
That's because people don't do it right, usually because they try in a DOS shell via Windows and stuff like that instead of doing it from a pure DOS booting machine. I've unlocked literally hundreds of drives with no problems at all. You need to create a pure DOS booting CD with QUNLOCK on it and boot to that and you will not have any issues at all.