reload the operating system - avoid losing recordings

[JeffINCarmel]

I need to reload the operating system on the computer that runs Sage TV. How can I avoid losing all my recordings? I have two locations for storing recordings. One is an external drive that only has recordings. The other is a partition on the same drive as the operating system. I would like to completely reformat the drive with the operating system.

[paulbeers]

Copy off your Sage folder onto one of the "drives" (I am using drives to represent the partition and the external drive). Write down which drive has what letter associated to it (i.e. D:, E:, etc.) Delete OS partition, and reinstall OS. Once the OS is loaded, you need to assign the drives the same letter as before (i.e. D:, E:, etc.). Install Sage and go thru the setup process (I should note that you might be able to get away with copying the old directory onto the new one and it all might work without having to do the entire setup process, but I haven't tried it). Now you should see all your old recordings show up in the recordings folder as it was before you re-installed.

[Naylia]

If you end up moving them to another partition/drive letter permanently there is also a process for rebuilding the SageTV recordings list from the files in the recording folder. There should be a link to FAQs in Opus's (one of the mods) signature and you can just follow those steps if you need to.

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by Naylia

There should be a link to FAQs in Opus's (one of the mods) signature...

There's also a FAQ link at the top of every forum page.