Thread: Replacing knackered HD in SKY HD box

Quote: Originally Posted by Undecided Adrian I thought a recent update meant that 1TB could be handled by the box properly now. You are absolutly sure it is just the hard drive and that the power supply hasn't contributed by frying the drive in the first place? Also get the drive out and see if copy+ can see anything on it or even if it does spin up. It's unlikely that the Thomson PSU fault would "fry" a disk drive.

Well I just replaced the Drive with a 500GB western digital drive and everything is working perfectly. Spent some time on the copy+ site seems the only way to format a 1tb disc is to have a back up copy of a disc with at lest one recording on ( its the sort of thing that could be useful as an online resource for those caught out by corrupt discs) I have had many HD go on me over the years and I recognised the tell tail clicking sound so was...

I think the OP should open the box and take a peek at the PSU before doing anything else. First few steps to open the box: Sky User - Thomson HD Box - Walkthrough on how to change the Hard Drive __________________ Panasonic TH-42PX600B , Panasonic SA-HT855 Home Theatre , Sky+HD Thomson 4E3007 , BT Broadband.

Correct - 500 GB will be handled by the Sky box but above that you need to use Copy+ to format the drive to the correct size. You also need at least one recorded programme copied with Copy+ for it to work and format the drive. Copy+ is Windows only and it may not work from within a Virtual Machine on a Mac as it need to address hardware correctly. Why not download Copy+ and run it on your Mac in XP mode and see what happens.

I thought a recent update meant that 1TB could be handled by the box properly now. You are absolutly sure it is just the hard drive and that the power supply hasn't contributed by frying the drive in the first place? Also get the drive out and see if copy+ can see anything on it or even if it does spin up. __________________ Microsoft are to make a Windows Vista Formula 1 car, unfortunately it's 20% slower than all the other cars,...