I have just upgraded from Sky+ to SkyHD.
Because I couldn't find time to dump all my old recordings to DVD within the 28 days I had to do the self-install and activate, I decided to use copy+ to backup my old Sky+ box (Pace TDS470N) to PC, and then recover them to my new SkyHD box (Amstrad 895-c).
However it did not work. When I hooked up the Amstrad after the recover process it did not show any of the old recordings on the planner. Worse still, when I tried to make a new recording it worked OK, but when I came to play it back the recorder just got stuck without playing back anything. The only way I could get it to unfreeze was by powering the box off.
I tried planner rebuild - nogo. Eventually I had to do a full system reset, and this at least got me back to square 1, but I obviously lost any recordings that may have been there.
Three other points to note:
1. before doing the copy+ recover, I installed the SkyHD box and had the card paired with the new box (activated 19/10/10) - everything was working at that stage although I did not test recording .
2. When I did the copy+ recover, I had to re-partition the new drive to get copy+ to see it.
3. I did a convert format from little endian to big endian as that's what the compatibility guides suggested for the amstrad.
After all that, my question is - Did I do anything wrong ie how can I successfully restore my old recordings to my new HD box, preferably without destroying the new box in the process?
...from reading some of the other posts on this forum I fear however the answer may be as my thread title suggests...?
thanks