Upgrading your sky+ hard drive

guysteruk · 14-08-08, 02:58 AM

does anyone know the best way to format a 500gb hard drive for a pace tds470n sky+ box? can u do it thru the sky box itself? or does it need done by pc first?

greyrider · 14-08-08, 07:35 AM

Just put the drive in and Sky+ will do the rest.
When your box is assembled, power it up, wait two minutes and press the "Sky" button.
Perform A "Full System Reset" ("Services,4,0,1, Select,8 Housekeeping")
Wait for a restart and then press the "Sky" button.
Check it all works re-enable "Instant rewind" and re-enter your Series Links.

You should probably go back to the first post in this thread and read the links there.

reddwarfcrew · 14-08-08, 08:12 AM

unfortunatel grey rider is wrong.

If you just put it in the sky+ box it will only format a partion of around 270GB (a SkyHD box will format a max partion of 500GB). You need to format it first using the copy+ software to format the whole drive if larger than these figures to get the full capacity of your drive.

http://www.skycopyplus.co.uk/about.php

guysteruk · 14-08-08, 04:53 PM

i have tryed to format my 500 gb hard drive in copy+.the drive wont show in source drive but it shows itself in destination drive. anyone got any ideas?

reddwarfcrew · 14-08-08, 05:09 PM

yes destination drive is correct. The source drive is if you want to hook up an old SKY+ HDD to copy data to the new (destination) drive.

All formatting is done to the drive showing under 'destination'. The drive (if connected) under source is purely read from.

Full step by step instructions at:

http://www.skycopyplus.co.uk/instructions.php

greyrider · 14-08-08, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by reddwarfcrew

unfortunatel grey rider is wrong.....[/url]

I was? <gasp>. Not entirely though, I did say the op should look at the first post which was....yep...yours, where you provide links to cover larger drives

guysteruk · 14-08-08, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddwarfcrew

yes destination drive is correct. The source drive is if you want to hook up an old SKY+ HDD to copy data to the new (destination) drive.

All formatting is done to the drive showing under 'destination'. The drive (if connected) under source is purely read from.

Full step by step instructions at:

Copy+ : The Sky & XTV Disk Copier

yes i know that but the drive will not format in destination drive without a source drive. im just trying to format the drive without actually copying anything over from a source drive

reddwarfcrew · 14-08-08, 06:35 PM

Ah right. Never done that. You probably need to try the forums over there

Copy+ :: Index

and they also have a forum for future developments (remember the software is free).