RE: Sky + Upgrade [Was:Re: Cheap 40Gb HDD]

["Robert Welsh" <bob-ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thanks for all the help. Can't find the instructions I had on
> doing the upgrade. It was in a magazine that SWMBO has thrown
> out. Anyone help?

To quote a post on this group on 3rd Sept last year, from Simon Coates:

"Adding a 120Gb hard disk to Sky+ is extremely easy!  I recommend that
you do
it ASAP.  Just make sure you have some tamper-resistant torx bits - the
torx
bits with a hole in the middle.  Just swap the hard disk, put everything
back together.  When you power up the box wait a minute or so after
plugging
it in, then turn on the box and do a full system reset.  The box will
say
'Housekeeping' for a while as it recognises the new disk.
You then have 3 times the original storage capacity.  Pages and pages of
recordings!
The only 'bug' is that the % remaining is always wrong.  It's odd - it
starts at approx 25% then goes down to 1% then up to 36% etc....
However,
the bar graph at the top of the planner works fine - and short
programmes
are indicated by very, very thin lines :o)

One small downside is that larger disks tend to be a bit noisier, so be
careful on what you get.  I used Maxtor DiamondMax 16 hard disks which
are
only slightly noisier that the original Sky+ Maxtor disks."

Hope that's useful.

Cheers,
Rob



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