Recent content by Al Gordon

Thanks to Trev and Graham but my neighbour who works in IT has examined the old hard drive and noticed evidence of burning.... He thinks the caddy may have burned out a diode. However, he also thinks the data is probably fine. Just means I need to buy an equivalent HDD and swap over the circuit...

Nope, don't get that message. I did try a memory stick I've used before and that's recognised. Just a thought but could I use a SATA to USB adaptor 'cos I think I have one of those kicking about. Anyway, when you say something is wrong does that mean the caddy might be faulty?

OK, I've now installed the new HDD and it seems to work without the need for jumpers so I'm very chuffed! But....I can't get the Foxsat to recognise the original HDD. I had bought as suggested by Graham a USB caddy and put the old drive in that but when I go into media and press 'red' I get...

Thanks Graham and everyone else. How will I know if my new HDD needs jumpers? My Foxsat is over two years old, if that helps.

How would you do what you described and would it require any particular IT skill? I've looked at the doc you attached but it doesn't say.

Thanks for that, Trev. Can you recommend a ITB drive that's known to work? I see incidentally that some folks are saying they've managed to get the Foxsat to accept even larger drives.

Thanks Trev. Eh - what is the Humax Copy command and where would I find it?

I have a 320GB model and it's nearly full. I think could safely install say a 1TB model as there's lots of helpful stuff on the net about how to do that. However, what I want to do is copy the contents of (clone?) the original HDD to the new HDD. My partner wouldn't be able to handle trying to...