Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Sky+ Set top box

Just because I work with computers everyone, especially friends and relatives, seems to think I know everything about anything electrical whilst I know lots sadly I don't know everything.

In the course of a discussion with a friend who wanted to upgrade the tiny disk that came with his Sky+ box. The conversation went sort of like this:

Me   : I don't know anything about Sky+ box disks......
Him  : You do computers, computers have disks, I want a bigger disk in my Sky+ box what's the problem?
Me   : *Sigh* OK I'll have a look.

To cut a long story short replacing the disk is a Sky+ box is as simple as a PC so maybe my friend was right.

All that is needed was a new disk. The trick is to get the correct software to do the copy. For this I used Copy+ which is free. The free software worked fine for me. The only issue is you need to use a PC to copy the original Sky+ disk to the new disk.


A final point, whoever wrote the software has spent a lot of time writing the software he has on his site. A link to donate some cash to him for his time and effort is also on the site, if you use his software please consider donating  a few pounds to him.




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