Originally Posted by djc45:
“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.