Thanks for the Link Rob... reading now.

Windows2K never saw the Tivo drive, I heard that can be bad news. But part of the "new" process is to copy a backup.bak image of your Tivo Drive to your C: drive while booted in Linux (from a bootable CD). Then, you "restore" this backup to your new drive and that does the old "blessing" task for you. So, if your C drive is NTFS, Linux has Read-Only support for it, meaning you can't write that backup.bak image to C. I was getting other "kernal panic" errors and "sync failures" etc, etc. It was just becoming SUCH a headache and because you use your PC, no tutorial can be very comprehensive. Add to that the fact that there are dozen of TiVo models out there, and there is no single authoritative source for good info.

The funny thing is, I did a drive upgrade for a buddy a year ago using the same computer, but using older tools (and a Series 1 Tivo) and it was no big deal... sigh.