Sky+ newbie and Ghost

Just got sky+ (not the 160Gb version though).

Firstly, i think its cool as f***, wish I got it yonks ago...

but one quick question...

If I upgrade the hard disk, is it possible to clone the original sky+ disk
onto the new disk using Ghost, thus keeping any existing recordings?

thanks
scott.

"scofer" wrote in message
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Just got sky+ (not the 160Gb version though).

Firstly, i think its cool as f***, wish I got it yonks ago...

but one quick question...

If I upgrade the hard disk, is it possible to clone the original sky+ disk
onto the new disk using Ghost, thus keeping any existing recordings?

thanks
scott.


I doubt it because AFAIK the disk is linux formatted. Ghost on windows cant
see my linux partition at all so if you took the disk out and put it in a
windoze system it probably wouldnt see it. Dunno what would happen if you
booted direct into Ghost though, I havent tried that. Probably easier to
take a night out and watch it all first, rather than spend a night on the PC
:-)

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Probably easier to
take a night out and watch it all first, rather than spend a night on the
PC



Or perhaps consider archiving special recordings to DVD?

Your recordings would be more "portable" that way anyway.

Brendan

I cant really answer the question but i do remember when i upgraded my HD in
the digiox, I put the old one into my computer and was able to see all
stored stuff, Cant remember if it was possible to view stuff on computer or
not though but remember thinkin g I could have copied everything to new
drive then put new one back into DB with everything in tact but think I read
somewhere that after inserting new HD the box automatically formats it so
hence me not trying.

I reckon though it may be possible to get DB to format new drive then hook
drive to PC and copy stuff over... i could also be wrong..

Steven.




"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in message
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Probably easier to
take a night out and watch it all first, rather than spend a night on
the
PC



Or perhaps consider archiving special recordings to DVD?

Your recordings would be more "portable" that way anyway.

Brendan

"scofer" wrote in message
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Just got sky+ (not the 160Gb version though).

Firstly, i think its cool as f***, wish I got it yonks ago...

but one quick question...

If I upgrade the hard disk, is it possible to clone the original sky+ disk
onto the new disk using Ghost, thus keeping any existing recordings?

thanks
scott.

When I did it I left the lid off for a couple of weeks so that I could
easily switch it all off and quickly swap the disks round when I wanted to
watch something off the old one. Obviously you need to do that when you're
not recording anything or you'll be fighting a losing battle. Swapping the
disks takes about two minutes including the boot up time.

Tumbleweed wrote:
"scofer" wrote in message
...
Just got sky+ (not the 160Gb version though).

Firstly, i think its cool as f***, wish I got it yonks ago...

but one quick question...

If I upgrade the hard disk, is it possible to clone the original
sky+ disk onto the new disk using Ghost, thus keeping any existing
recordings? thanks
scott.


I doubt it because AFAIK the disk is linux formatted. Ghost on
windows cant see my linux partition at all so if you took the disk
out and put it in a windoze system it probably wouldnt see it. Dunno
what would happen if you booted direct into Ghost though, I havent
tried that. Probably easier to take a night out and watch it all
first, rather than spend a night on the PC :-)

doesn't matter with ghost if you're doing a disk image. you can't do it to
a file, but a disk clone shouldn't care what format the drive's in - it'll
just copy the 1s and 0s...

ric

"Ric" wrote in message
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Tumbleweed wrote:
"scofer" wrote in message
...
Just got sky+ (not the 160Gb version though).

Firstly, i think its cool as f***, wish I got it yonks ago...

but one quick question...

If I upgrade the hard disk, is it possible to clone the original
sky+ disk onto the new disk using Ghost, thus keeping any existing
recordings? thanks
scott.


I doubt it because AFAIK the disk is linux formatted. Ghost on
windows cant see my linux partition at all so if you took the disk
out and put it in a windoze system it probably wouldnt see it. Dunno
what would happen if you booted direct into Ghost though, I havent
tried that. Probably easier to take a night out and watch it all
first, rather than spend a night on the PC :-)

doesn't matter with ghost if you're doing a disk image. you can't do it
to a file, but a disk clone shouldn't care what format the drive's in -
it'll just copy the 1s and 0s...

ric

Are you sure about that? Just fired up Ghost, and on my C drive, whch has 3
partitions (two for Windows and 1 linux) it reports the linux partition as
'unused space'. Which makes me wonder if, when doing a disk clone, it might
speed things up by not copying the 'unused space'(aka my linux partition)?

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