I realize that this post will probably not receive any replies, however, I will try again to get SOME degree of assistance from this community.

In the Windows OS family, a hard drive with information on it, i.e., documents, mp3s, whatever, can be attached as a secondary drive (to a working system) and the information can be accessed.

Can recorded programs on a TIVO harddrive be accessed by adding it as a secondary drive to a working TIVO system?

To clarify my actual question: If I attach a hard drive that contains my recorded shows ( but that will not actually boot as a primary drive due to unknown linux errors) will the system recognize and grant access to the shows recorded on that drive?

The only reason I am creating this post is that I have read that dual drive TIVOs must be "married" and that they become "locked" or "assigned" if they are attached to a working TIVO system. ( The posts I read did not have dates, so I am not sure how old they were.)

Thanks in advance to anyone who actually takes the time to respond in a positive manner to this thread.