Saved another £50

I had a bit of time this afternoon after work, so I decided to liberate the 120Gb hard drive lying idle in my old Sky+ box. It could be better used in my IDE caddy as a back-up drive. The incident with the PC power supply (not arrived yet) has set me thinking about doing a regular backup of our laptop where all of the photo's and music reside. I've already got some CD's scattered about the place but my back-up regime is erratic at best.

I removed the hard disk from the Sky+ box and swapped it for the one in my caddy. The 120gig drive was set at Cable select and the 40gig drive was set as a master in the caddy. So I made the necessary adjustments using the jumpers on the back of the drives and did a swap. The caddy worked first time and a quick format later I've now got a 116Gb USB back-up drive. I've no idea if the drive now in the Sky+ box actually works, they're a bit fussy about which drive work and which don't. I may never know as I don't see me using the the old Sky+ box again any time soon, if ever. Back in the garage for that one then.