Hi
I want to upgrade my Humax foxsat HDR 320gb box with a 1tb Hard drive

My question is - Is there a prefurred hard drive that is used?

The basic advice is look for a drive that is specified for AV use (Audio Visual) or CE (Consumer Electronics) and has a low power consumption. Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EVxx work fine.

Example

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-w...oogle+shopping

Thank you

Sounds like I was going down the right lines with my prospective upgrade as this was the drive I had picked. That’s a good price – thanks Graham.

You are welcome , however if that's the best price it's just sheer luck. Just googled the drive and posted the first link with one in stock as an example.

I upgraded my Foxsat HDR to the WD 1TB drive as recommended by Graham. Scan had the best price and delivered the next day. The upgrade only took 10 mins plus the many hours of copying to transfer films and programmes that I hadn't watched yet. Lots of HD progs wouldn't transfer to my USB drive as they were over 4GB but there was nothing that important. Now I can record everything in HD without having to worry about older progs getting deleted automatically.

Paul

Get yourself a slot in sata cradle drop in your old drive and connect it to the rear usb drive. Locate the video folder in the third partition. You can either copy direct from there to the internal hdd or simply replay the recordings direct from the drive. You can then use the old drive to archive recordings from the internal hdd.

Thanks Graham. I ordered a cradle from ebay but couldn't wait until it arrived. Once I've got a gadget I've just got to use it .

Graham,
Can I just check, if I upgrade my interal drive and then drop the original drive into a usb sata enclosure, will all the files copy onto the new internal drive, including the HD files that are protected against copying OFF the humax?
Duncan

Should do so no problem. If they have the no copy flag set having been copied to usb you can always reset the permissions using AV2HDR. No idea if this necessary, when I upgraded I simply watched the existing recordings straight from the drive.

I have 2 usb drives connected at the moment to archive recordings. One on the front usb and one on the rear.One disc is formatted to fat32 which I use for SD stuff and the other formatted to ext3 to handle files above 4 gb that I use to archive HD stuff.
I would like to be able to copy the protected programmes that are on the current internal drive, which is why I have never archived them, back onto the new 1tb internal, so I can unplug the caddy and hae both of my usb drives connected.
There are just some HD programmes I don't want to lose, which is why I have held off upgrading the drive as I was not sure how to keep the programmes that will not copy off.
I don't suppose the humax can use more usb drives at the same time if I use a powered usb hub.
Will need to upgrade soon though as my internal is sitting at about 87%, most of which cannot be copied off with the copy function, and I need to delete new recordings pretty quickly.

You don't need a powered hub provided the drives have their own power. The hdr can switch between drives but you can only use one at a time so you can't directly copy between usb devices.

Two solutions,

Use Raydons modified firmware and ftp them direct to a ntfs volume on a windows PC and back again onto the new drive.

Install EXT2FS which lets you access EXT3 drives using windows. Connect the drives to a PC by USB using your Caddy or Sata if your PC has an esata port and the caddy has both. Copy the files using Windows File Explorer to a ntfs volume. If yoo have two caddys there's no reason why using a PC you can't copy drive to drive. The no copy flags are meaningless to a PC it's simply a flag in the .hmt file.

That's great Graham, thanks for your help.

Or you could buy one already installed, from Humax Direct. i.e.

Devolo powerline adaptor kits still available with up to 40% off if purchased at the same time as a network ready PVR, click "more info" tab on individual product pages for details link here

FOXSAT-HDR 1TB

EXCLUSIVE TO HUMAX DIRECT

Freesat + HD 1TB PVR
£309
Above was included in email from Humax's Grahame North's notification of software updates to Freeview STBoxes

It would be interesting to know which one Humax use. Anyone got one ?
David

HiPaul
How do you put programs to USB drive then to new drive?
Im just about to order a drive today so soon will need to do what you have done

Just ordered from Scan, with free delivery because Im a member of AVForums,

The easiest way, is not to bother, get yourself a usb drop in drive cradle and drop in the old drive. View the existing recordings direct from usb. When you have watched and deleted them you can use the drive to archive stuff longer term.

Example

http://www.allcam.biz/catalog/produc...roducts_id=693

Agree with Graham. However if you do want to back up to another drive just plug it into the USB port. I used a hard drive I use for PC backups and it worked fine. You can use a USB memory stick but I've never tried that. Go into the library and then file manager (press OPT+). You can choose which drive and folder to look at in each window and copy files across.

Paul

Thanks Graham and Paul, I will give it a go later, drive being delivered later

All done and that was nice and easy.

Good link here
http://www.astra2d.com/harddrive.html