Today I received a replacement SKY+ HD after my Old Thomson one had developed the well documented power supply fault.
Prior to the swap out, I saved an image of the old hard disk using Copy+ as I had some recordings I wanted to keep.
The Sky engineer arrived installed the new Amstrad box, initialised it and then left. So far so good.
Later in that day I opened up the new box, connected up the hard disk to a usb sata adaptor with a view to restoring the backed up image onto the new box.
Unfortunately the disk although showing in windows did not show in the Copy+ menu as a source or destination drive. Delving deeper into the FAQ I ascertained that the new box was running Darwin
Here is my question(s)
1) If I delete the new disks partition in windows, will the disk then show up in Copy+ as a destination drive. I am guessing it will?
2) If I then copy the backed up image onto the new disk, then put the disk back into the new box with the pre-Darwin image and then power it up, will the box reinstall Darwin and at the same time recover/convert my recordings into the new system?
3) I would like a back-out plan if things go wrong. As I can't make a backup of the Darwin disk, I would like to know how to recover the system to a usable state, all be it with an empty planner if things go pooh. Would deleting the disk's partition then rebooting prompt the box prep the disk from scratch without any other action from me. Or can someone point me in the right direction as to how to do a clean/install boot on a skybox with a blank disk just in case it comes to that. I ask this as my only experience of hard disk installs thus far is in PCs, where in most cases you can't just plug in a new drive and expect a computer to boot.
Thanks in advance