Hi guys,
Apologies if this post should be elsewhere (and happy to move it if someone objects) but I've been trawling these forums for nigh on two days now to find the answer to my question. I think it's going to be a long-winded description with possibly a pretty quick explanation...
I tried copying my Sky+ HD drive last night (pulled from a Samsung box) by hooking up to a Vista PC via USB. I had no space on the internal drive, so decided to create an image on an external USB drive. I also installed the XTVFS drivers to be on the safe side, but admittedly hadn't disabled the anti-virus/anti-spyware on the PC.
The first copy attempt failed with the Unknown VC2 / Endian error message, but as I was downstairs at the time, I assumed this might have been something to do with the screensaver kicking in, since the external USB drive had stopped. I therefore restarted the copy process with an extension to screensaver timeout but got the same message again, so assumed it may have been an eco-power setting on the external drive (though not sure why it would power down in the middle of the transfer). This copy process finished, but I was loathe to trust it, so decided to go again.
Looking around for the error message on both these forums and Google, I managed to give myself the willies over much mention of disks being knackered even worse if they are returned to the Sky box. I then turned off all the anti-virus software and commenced another copy operation; getting up in the middle of the night to check on it, I saw the external drive was asleep again, but as soon as I pressed a key, it woke up and continued to copy from the Sky disk. No error messages as far as I am aware.
Research has uncovered the fact that the anti-virus was probably to blame for the errors and also that Copy+ has most likely fixed any such errors on the image created, so my question is this - do I need to run any repair software over the Sky disk and will I ruin it if I put it back in the box as is? I haven't yet copied the image across to the new WD 1TB I'm going to install and don't want to lose any recordings.
Appreciate any assistance with this as my room is now so covered in parts and tools it looks like a robot has had diarrohea in there. And more importantly, I'm in danger of losing face with the missus...
Cheers,
Ed