Background: I was no longer able to access any recordings or programs in anytime.
I decided to inspect what was on the hard drive and found that all of the recordings and anytime programs were still there.
I made a backup of all of the recordings and anytime programs onto my pc using copy+.
I got a new hard drive and transferred all of the recordings and anytime programs onto it from the backup using copy+.
I tried the new hard drive in the sky box but it would not start up (the red light turned on and button presses on my remote control make another LED light up but nothing more).
I tried the old hard drive in the sky box and it started.
I tried the new hard drive in the sky box using an external power supply to check that the new hard drive did not require too much power for the sky box. The sky box still would not start.
I thought perhaps copying the programs from a backup, rather than directly from the original hard drive might be an issue so I want to attempt to copy directly from the hard drive. The reason I did not do so in the first place is because I didn't have enough power cables in my pc, I've since got a splitter.
I deleted the volume on the new hard drive so I could start afresh.
I then went to initialise the hard drive but was unable as the option was not available, so I created a new volume and tried to reformat but I cant because it is write protected, I think this is to do with the XTVFS read only driver.
So how do I start from scratch with the new hard drive now that I have deleted the volume?
Should copying the recordings from a backup prevent the hard drive from allowing the box to start up?