Quote Originally Posted by thomson
Seems that the drive has been booted in a TiVo... and it looks like the TiVo has decided to "lock" it. I have not seen this happen with Seagate's or Samsung's, and running the unlock (qunlock.exe) utility on a Maxtor is a little risky.
True, DON'T run qunlock unless you want a doorstop.. run Diskutil.exe instead, it is completely safe, copy it onto a bootable DOS disk.
http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/diskutil.zip

EDIT: heh bet me by a minute!! Anyway I have run Diskutil Numerous times on my dual 300gb maxtor drives, works fine.