Hi PCBBC
Looking for a bit of advice please.
I used the superb sky copy+ software a couple of years ago when i first got my sky+hd box to upgrade it from the measly 160g that it came with to a 1tb Hitachi hardrive, and it has worked quite well to date barring the occasional crash that seems to with the territory and the ridiculously slow software and epg speed.
Tonight out of the blue i can't seem to access any of the recorded programs. If i go to planner i get the "header" and i suppose you'd call it the frame, but no programs showing at all? it's a bit like looking at the empty frame of a painting with a blank canvas in the middle.
Bit of a pain as i had almost 1tb of recordings on it.
And once i am at this screen it just hangs there and does nothing until i unplug the bloody box and then wait for it to reboot again. Which i'm sure you all know takes about 5 minutes for everything to come back to life again.
I've carried out a planner rebuild and it's still exactly the same.
Apart from that the box appears to be functioning normally, i can still watch, pause and play live tv.
I have not phoned sky yet but as the box is no longer under guarantee i suspect they may not be very helpful however i will call them tomorrow evening to see if they can suggest anything.
My questions are:
1) Does this sound like a hardrive problem/failure?
2) should i try to copy the contents of the drive to my PC and then back to the harddrive?
3) is it now possible to fit a 2tb hard drive using sky copy+ ? (just thinking ahead if i need to replace it)
Any advice info would be appreciated.
Cheers.