I have a feeling that there has been a recent update to Darwin that has killed off this way of upgrading. I know for sure (as I still have the working HD to prove it
that going via a Thomson HD to get to a Darwin box has worked in the relatively recent past, but I also have been trying it over the last week on another old Sky+ disk full of programmes and the result is the same every time I try it - the programmes are still around on the Thomson HD, but when placed in the DRX890 there is no longer that useful screen message saying that it is updating and when the box is fully started up, the programmes are gone from the planner.
I can only assume that there has been a new Darwin/DRX890 (dunno which as I am not an expert in this!) update recently that has caused it to format any new disk it finds instead of doing that update thing that has worked so nicely in the past.
Anyone else seeing this behaviour? Any ideas how to force it to update instead of wipe?