Sly + hard disc drive

[redrobo197]

Hi just wandering if anybody can tell me anything about the hdd in a sly + box,is it ide or sata,2.5 or 3.5 and could it be removed safely and used in another pvr or have sly done anything to them that makes them useless once no longer installed in there euipment,we all no how sly love to stitch everyone up,i cant believe that after spending 200 quid and keeping to my agreement for over twelve months that my + feature wont even work on the fta/ftv channels,Sly are rip off BA*****S.

[breezybadger]

The hard drive in a standard Sky+ box is a Standard 3.5" IDE drive and can be used in anything when removed, in the SkyHD box it's a SATA drive...

The capacity depends on which version you have though (I can't remember all of them but I know the first ones were Slim 40GB Maxtor drives)...

[rick1980]

see post Upgrading the Hard Drive in a Sky+/SkyHD box By Lincsat for further info. Gives very good pic guides on how to do it. If u want a HDD i can recommend _http://www.aria.co.uk as a supplier. I have used them for years for components and they are VERY good on both price and service.

[Sonya_Blade]

Originally Posted by breezybadger

The hard drive in a standard Sky+ box is a Standard 3.5" IDE drive and can be used in anything when removed, in the SkyHD box it's a SATA drive...

The capacity depends on which version you have though (I can't remember all of them but I know the first ones were Slim 40GB Maxtor drives)...

how do you format these maxtor drives to work in a pc?

[rick1980]

As these are just standard IDE drives it's quite easy. Plug the drive into the pc, make sure to set the jumper on the back of the drive next to the IDE interface to either master or slave. Easy rule of thumb here if its on its own on the IDE cable its a master, if it is a second drive on the cable its a slave.
Restart the pc.
go into bios and set the ide interface for the drive to auto select

When in windows

start - run - "cmd.exe" - this gives you the command prompt (dos)
"fdisk" - this will let you partition the drive
make it extended dos

after exiting fdisk restart if it dosent automaticaly and the drive can be formatted by right clicking in my computer. dont quick format and use NTFS file system.

BE AWARE that if you dont select the correct drive in fdisk that you will wipe whatever drive you have selected and as the default is the primary ide drive, which likely contains your operating system you will have to reinstall your pc from scratch.

Good Luck

BE AWARE that if you dont select the correct

[nvingo]

Originally Posted by Sonya_Blade

how do you format these maxtor drives to work in a pc?

Did you manage to format them OK?

[Sonya_Blade]

Originally Posted by nvingo

Did you manage to format them OK?

nope! i get a message that the hard drive does not exist!