Sky+ HDD upgrade question

I do much video editing on my computer so have 3 x 120Gb, 7200rpm drives
in my machine. One is empty at the moment so I was thinking of trying it
in my Sky+ box.

The website that lists compatibile drives talks about using the HDD 'out
of the box'

My drives have obviously been FDisk'ed and formatted.

Does anyone know if this will be a problem? I'm going to try it tonight
when I get home if not.

Thanks

Dene

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I do much video editing on my computer so have 3 x 120Gb, 7200rpm
drives
in my machine. One is empty at the moment so I was thinking of trying
it
in my Sky+ box.

The website that lists compatibile drives talks about using the HDD
'out
of the box'

My drives have obviously been FDisk'ed and formatted.

Does anyone know if this will be a problem? I'm going to try it
tonight
when I get home if not.

From what I've read up to now 7200rpm drives won't work in Sky+

Apparantly, they seem to be OK in V2 boxes (which I have) and i'll post
my findings tomorrow if someone can confirm that it will be OK to put in
a pre-formatted drive.

I'd imagine so then Dene.....

If not simply the usual Services 4,0,1 Select and let Sky+ do the
*Housekeeping* trick (Which I'd assume formats the HD to the boxes liking)
It may just work straight from installing but if not I'd try the above
method :-)

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I do much video editing on my computer so have 3 x 120Gb, 7200rpm
drives
in my machine. One is empty at the moment so I was thinking of trying
it
in my Sky+ box.

The website that lists compatibile drives talks about using the HDD
'out
of the box'

My drives have obviously been FDisk'ed and formatted.

Does anyone know if this will be a problem? I'm going to try it
tonight
when I get home if not.

From what I've read up to now 7200rpm drives won't work in Sky+

Apparantly, they seem to be OK in V2 boxes (which I have) and i'll post
my findings tomorrow if someone can confirm that it will be OK to put in
a pre-formatted drive.

I'd imagine so then Dene.....

If not simply the usual Services 4,0,1 Select and let Sky+ do the
*Housekeeping* trick (Which I'd assume formats the HD to the boxes liking)
It may just work straight from installing but if not I'd try the above
method :-)

Thanks. Can't do the swap tonight though, haven't got the right
tools...DOH!

Dene

Dene Wilby said this:

I do much video editing on my computer so have 3 x 120Gb, 7200rpm
drives in my machine. One is empty at the moment so I was thinking of
trying it in my Sky+ box.

The website that lists compatibile drives talks about using the HDD
'out of the box'

My drives have obviously been FDisk'ed and formatted.

Does anyone know if this will be a problem? I'm going to try it
tonight when I get home if not.

I imagine the Full System Reset would take care of that, but if not you
could always try deleting its partitions with fdisk (or similar) or even a
low-level format.

Dene Wilby wrote:

My drives have obviously been FDisk'ed and formatted.

Does anyone know if this will be a problem?

The Sky+ should format any disk to its satisfaction regardless of what
is on them. The procedure is automatic.

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The Wizard wrote:

From what I've read up to now 7200rpm drives won't work in Sky+

Safer to say some 7200rpm drives won't work in some Sky+ versions. The
Sky+ certainly doesn't require a high speed drive.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/guiv
How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/
BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

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Dene Wilby wrote:

My drives have obviously been FDisk'ed and formatted.

Does anyone know if this will be a problem?

The Sky+ should format any disk to its satisfaction regardless of what
is on them. The procedure is automatic.

Thanks everyone. Just waiting for the bit set to open the box and i'll
give it a crack.

Dene