What was your original box? An Amstrad DRX780?walterwall wrote:I tried to fit the 1tb Hitachi drive that has all my recording on it tonight and unfortunately every time i try to access the planner it goes in to standby doh!!
This box is little endian whereas all the other HD boxes (including DRX890/5) are big and require a data conversion.
Usually this results in either failure to boot up at all, or the standby problem you describe.
This happens if the card is not correctly paired with the box.So i thought as i still have the copy of the files on my PC i'll do a full system reset on the 1tb drive in the machine, which i did and it appeared to then function normally. I then tested it by doing a few test recordings and for some bizarre reason it wont record any of the hd channels??
You should be able to watch all channels apart from premium (movie and sports) with an unpaired card, but recordings all fail with "Recording Interrupted".
The only channels you CAN successfully record and playback with an unpaired card are Free To Air (ones you can watch without a card, e.g. BBC).
If this is not the case, then the problem is either an incompatible drive or the data on the drive. My guess would be the data, as it appears from your testing that the disk works correctly after a FSR.