Hello,
I've had Sky+ for about 4 years and on occasions my Sky+ has had th
odd hip cup e.g. picture freeze whilst viewing live tv and so on. N
problem.
However in the past couple of weeks, I've recorded a number o
programmes and I'll go to watch them. Suddenly the recording wil
freeze, so I'll press the Sky button to return to live tv. The Sky bo
returns to live broadcasts, however it is very slow doing it. At thi
point, everything will stop if I attempt to change channel or go in t
the Sky Guide. When I power down and attempt to restart the recorde
programme, the Sky+ box will not let me watch the recording and I'
left deleting the programme. Which is a pain, if it's a film and I'
3/4 through.
Does anyone have any ideas, what might be causing this - as the proble
seems to be on the increase.
Many Thanks

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In article , MrSky+ says...

Hello,
I've had Sky+ for about 4 years and on occasions my Sky+ has had the
odd hip cup e.g. picture freeze whilst viewing live tv and so on. No
problem.
However in the past couple of weeks, I've recorded a number of
programmes and I'll go to watch them. Suddenly the recording will
freeze, so I'll press the Sky button to return to live tv. The Sky box
returns to live broadcasts, however it is very slow doing it. At this
point, everything will stop if I attempt to change channel or go in to
the Sky Guide. When I power down and attempt to restart the recorded
programme, the Sky+ box will not let me watch the recording and I'm
left deleting the programme. Which is a pain, if it's a film and I'm
3/4 through.
Does anyone have any ideas, what might be causing this - as the problem
seems to be on the increase.
Many Thanks.


Basically over time the HDD gets fragmented/bad clusters etc the same
as a PC and needs a format.

Services, 4,0,1 Select. Options in there at the bottom to do a Planner
Rebuild or reset the box.


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"Paul Martin" wrote

I don't think a planner rebuild is a format, or a defragmentation. I
think it's the same as a CHKDSK (or a fsck if you're on Unix).

You age is showing!

Paul Martin wrote:

I don't think a planner rebuild is a format, or a defragmentation. I
think it's the same as a CHKDSK

You are more or less right.

The options to try are, in order:

Reboot.
Planner rebuild.
Software reload.
Full system reset (this will erase all recordings).
New drive.

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On 15 Oct 2005 13:56:08 GMT, in uk.tech.tv.sky Paul Martin
wrote :

In article ,
Conor wrote:

Basically over time the HDD gets fragmented/bad clusters etc the same
as a PC and needs a format.

I don't think a planner rebuild is a format, or a defragmentation. I
think it's the same as a CHKDSK (or a fsck if you're on Unix).

Question what would happen if the drive was placed in a PC and
reformatted ? would it totally screw it up and or could it be
reused , if not in the Sky box in the computer ?

Sorry; newbee, totally stupid question but I need to ask ?

In article ,
says...

I don't think a planner rebuild is a format, or a defragmentation. I
think it's the same as a CHKDSK (or a fsck if you're on Unix).

Question what would happen if the drive was placed in a PC and
reformatted ? would it totally screw it up and or could it be
reused , if not in the Sky box in the computer ?

Sorry; newbee, totally stupid question but I need to ask ?

No it would still work once back in the Sky box but you would need to do
a Full System Reset on the box once it was reinstalled.

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:26:42 -0000, in uk.tech.tv.sky Sean
wrote :

In article ,
says...

I don't think a planner rebuild is a format, or a defragmentation. I
think it's the same as a CHKDSK (or a fsck if you're on Unix).

Question what would happen if the drive was placed in a PC and
reformatted ? would it totally screw it up and or could it be
reused , if not in the Sky box in the computer ?

Sorry; newbee, totally stupid question but I need to ask ?

No it would still work once back in the Sky box but you would need to do
a Full System Reset on the box once it was reinstalled.

Thanks!! would it do any good ?
It is my orig Grey amstrad Box and recording sound is breaking up on
playback sometimes picture is jumping too?
Have done both the reset and the full restore, has made no
difference :-(

I'm feel Quite confident about pulling the drive out and putting it in
the comp if it would do any good?

So don't know if I should call sky , get a disk or give the old disk
a zap in the computer.

On 10-Nov-2006, wrote:

So don't know if I should call sky , get a disk or give the old disk
a zap in the computer.

If you put it into a PC get the drive mfrs. utility and do a full
test. If there are any bad sectors, a possible cause of the
symptoms, it will report them, and if few in number mask them
out. I had a drive with 3 bad sectors and the PC kept
blue sceening and crashing, the drive mfrs. (Seatools) utility
fixed the problem, and no longer reports bad sectors.
I suspect that the bad sectors were early in life failure,
I keep two backups on USB drives, in case the
drive goes south. After two years it hasn't given any more
problems.
I feel Quite confident about pulling the drive out and putting it in
the comp if it would do any good?
If it's not working properly it's worth a try.

I've got the same problem here, so was thinking if the drive was bad just to
upgrade to a bigger hdd at the same time. Would like to hear if this fixed
your problem though.

Cheers,

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