Hi everybody.
For the last few days I tried to prepare my Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003 drive - and zonk
When I've connected brand new drive for the first time - it was recognised and formatted by SKY+ HD box - as 1TB partition. I've recorded few things and playback was perfectly fine.
First step - I tried to copy old 640GB drive sector-by-sector ... after 4 hours - Acronis True Image returned error that he can't write to sector 63.
Then I tried to use Copy+ and ExPVR - zonk both times
Of course Copy+ 1.2.0.8 can't see Darwin drives - so I tried to copy old pre-Darwin drives - from the old SKY+ - but Copy+ returned error
Also, I don't see a way to only format the new drive under Copy+ ?!
ExPRV - recognise old 640GB SKY+ HD drive (currently in use) and see vanilla image (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=856&start=30#p4511) - but can't copy existing shows nor format only the new 2TB drive No errors but drive isn't recognised by SKY box anymore
I was preparing new drive under Windows Vista - and I thought that maybe drive "switched" to 4kB sectors - Seagate's SmartAlign - so I tried to reformat drive under Windows XP - but I can't install it on my Dell Precision 690 fully legal key from original COA sticker is not valid
So I tried to use GParted USB Linux version - for the first time, GParted couldn't format the drive, so I used Windows XP installer to create partition, then GParted could format it to FAT32, then I've deleted partition and GParted is showing that drive uses 512B logical sector and 4kB physical sector - but SKY box still won't see the 2TB drive and can't initialize it
Of course I tried to perform "full system reset" each time I tested the drive in SKY box - but nothing SKY box restart and still can't see the 2TB drive
I don't know what else I can do Would be great if I can use it at least as 1TB volume Maybe later somebody will find solution how to resize it to 2TB
thanks