Page 1 of Sky+HD Hard Drive Upgade - Anyone here done it?

My HD box went on the fritz and has ben replaced by a Sky engineer. Now is the perfect time to replace the Hard Drive with a larger one.

Has anyone here done it? I know there are websites to talk you through it but wanted to see if anyone has actually done it and how easy it was.

Whats the largest Hard Drive you can fit?

I remember a few years ago someone, on a different forum,selling a harddrive allready formatted with recording of all 6 SW movies in HD. Cant find it now.

I don`t have HD, but I`ve done the normal Sky+ one. Just swapped in a new IDE drive, booted it up, let it format the thing (did it on its own), that was all there was to it.

Not sure what the largest HDD you can fit in the HD boxes, but I`m sure its a few hundred gig at least.


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IIRC the drive in an HD box is a SATA drive and 750gig.
You cant access the whole drive, half of it is kept for that Anytime crap, even if yuo turn that off.

I know 1Tb drives have been fitted, think you can go a bit higher but then the reliability issue on big drives kicks in.

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With IDE drives you used to have to make sure that the jumper was set to CS (Cable Select).

In the hardware thread there was a link in a post of mine regarding receiver models & whats been proven to work.

Easy enough to do though.



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Some useful URLs, not posting as links so copy paste them!

http://www.morlocks.co.uk/disc-change-hd.htm <~~ how to change the drive in a Sky+ or SkyHD box. Only one HD is shown but should be reasonably similar to follow.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=156344 <~~ loads of advice for upgraders, worth the read through

http://www.skycopyplus.co.uk/links.php <~~ SkyCopy+ software site but this is the links page, obviously just click home on it to get to the main page ;)

Looking through some of them I was wrong with the sizes, 320 gig probably fitted, 750 gig maximum size etc.

HTH

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I`ve done it.

I think there are loads of guides (see above post!).

I have an Amstrad box which had a 320gig Western Digital drive in, so I replaced it with a 1TB drive from the same range - 2% free suddenly became 80% !

Fairly easy to do. I`m sure the guides will go into more detail, but the basics are:

Open up your Sky box

Take out the hard disk

Put the original disk into your computer and copy the data over to the new drive (using Sky Copy Plus)

Put the new drive into the Sky box and turn on.

That`s it!



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Also...RE the comment about all 6 Star Wars films in HD - you`ll only be able to watch them if you have a Sky Movies subscription.


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1TB drive here, very easy to do and may take a few hours depending on how much you have on your existing drive to copy over. I got bored (No Sky tv) and surfed the net for a bit drinking Stella and then realised I had to put it all back again after 6 cans (:¦ . But as I said it was easy, so no problems. ;)




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