WinMFS not recognizing drives in Select Drive

[jsb_hburg]

Hello,

I am trying to copy my original TiVo drive to a new 500GB Seagate DB35 drive on a new Dell PC with SATA connections. No luck. I even tried using the USB to SATA adapter on one of the drives. No luck either.

The problem is that I do not see any of the drives in the initial Select Drive step to go any further. I do not see these two drives mounted in Windows Explorer.

I hope I haven't bricked the original drive. I looked at the full guide and I do not have an IDE drive to remove. I have just one SATA drive.

Any thoughts?

In the meantime, I am going to put the TiVo back together and try again tomorrow after reading some replies.

Thanks,
Joe

[jsb_hburg]

As more info, I am using Vista Home Premium on the new PC.


On the old PC using XP, WinMFS recognizes the drive on the USB to SATA adapter. Oh well. I will order a second adapter to do this on the old PC


I am disappointed with the new PC as a result.


I am still interested if anyone knows what the fix is for Vista.

[spike]

As more info, I am using Vista Home Premium on the new PC.


On the old PC using XP, WinMFS recognizes the drive on the USB to SATA adapter. Oh well. I will order a second adapter to do this on the old PC


I am disappointed with the new PC as a result.


I am still interested if anyone knows what the fix is for Vista.

I think you have to run winmfs w/ admin rights in Vista.

[jsb_hburg]

Thanks for replying. But I do have admin rights on the new PC running Vista.

[Calvin098]

I was just having the same problem as you. Then I found this in another post:

Thanks for the help. I was running the software under my account which has admin rights, but it turns out the user access control was not prompting me to use the admin rights. Simply disabling the user access control and I now have a Tivo HD running with a nice new 500Gb drive. The software worked like a charm after I got the drives to show up.

Just go to your user accounts in the control panel and then click the "Turn User Account Control on or off", uncheck the box and click OK. You will have to restart your computer afterwards but then it should be working.

[jsb_hburg]

I was just having the same problem as you. Then I found this in another post:

Thanks for the help. I was running the software under my account which has admin rights, but it turns out the user access control was not prompting me to use the admin rights. Simply disabling the user access control and I now have a Tivo HD running with a nice new 500Gb drive. The software worked like a charm after I got the drives to show up.

Just go to your user accounts in the control panel and then click the "Turn User Account Control on or off", uncheck the box and click OK. You will have to restart your computer afterwards but then it should be working.

Thanks! I will give it a go after work tomorrow and report back. Joe

[jsb_hburg]

Many thanks! Unchecking the box worked. I now have 64 HD hours from a newly installed Seagate DB35 500GB drive!

Joe

[tkris]

You don't have to disable UAC, just select properties for the executable, and check the "Run As Administrator" check box in the Compatibility tab.. then it will always do the UAC prompt before it starts and you don't have to worry about it failing to prompt because it doesn't know to ask for privledge escalation.. works great for me.

Thanks for the great code! nice to do TiVo work without having to boot from a CD..