Originally Posted by ikonia
I have no intention of breaking the encryption. I can't image the drive as the sky+hd box has a bigger hard disk and the partition table is different so if its possible I'd have to take the files of, store them, then re-import them into the new sky box.
unless the sky+/HD boxes are doing something really funky, there should be no problem imaging the smaller drive and then restoring it to a larger one. Acronis TrueImage can do this without blinking. So can DriveImage and Ghost. All the Linux live CDs should be able to do it too.