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Latest post 02-17-2008 10:09 AM by Beobuddy. 8 replies.
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  • 02-07-2008 3:04 AM

    • BEOfreak
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    HDR1 upgrade

    Hi,
    Is it possible to upgrade a HDR1 80 Gb with a 250/500 Gb IDE hard drive (yourself)? I can see in the service manual it looks like a normal IDE hard drive and it also looks like you can manually can set the size of the disk in the service menu.
    What format is the hard drive formatted in (FAT32/NTFS) and which format are the recordings store in, is it possible to plug the drive in a pc and copy the files and then burn them to DVD?

    Regards Rasmus

    Avant CTV 28", V6000, DVD1, BC9000, BS3000, BL4000, MX4200, CX50, BeoCom 2, Beocom 6000, LC1, LC2

  • 02-07-2008 5:08 AM In reply to

    • Bart
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    Re: HDR1 upgrade

    This has been tried last year by a member of the Dutch forum (not me). Bottom line was that it didn't work! The disk is formatted in a non-standard way, the new disk wasn't recognized and couldn't be activated.

    An idea could be that the 250 GB disk of an upgraded HDR1 was taken out and a ghost-image was made of it. This image could easily be shared!!

    BTW since the disk is unreadable by a PC the contents can't be read either Sad

    Bart

  • 02-07-2008 5:58 AM In reply to

    Re: HDR1 upgrade

    You could try to clone the 80Gb with Symantec Ghost. Then restore the image to a larger disk, but increase the volume size to cover the whole disk. Not sure if this will work.
  • 02-07-2008 7:23 AM In reply to

    Re: HDR1 upgrade

    I saw a HDR1 for sale a few months ago where the seller claimed that the hard drive had been upgraded to 250 Gb. This indicates that it can be done or perhaps the seller was telling porkies... Hmm

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  • 02-07-2008 8:57 AM In reply to

    • Bart
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    Re: HDR1 upgrade

    It's an official B&O-upgrade which can be done by the dealer. Don't know the costs involved.
  • 02-07-2008 3:15 PM In reply to

    Re: HDR1 upgrade

    The 250 Gb upgrade costs 185 EUR in Portugal.
  • 02-15-2008 4:29 AM In reply to

    • BEOfreak
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    Re: HDR1 upgrade

    It seems like HDR2 is the one to go for instead of upgrading a HDR1...

    Thank you all for your replies Smile

    Best regards Rasmus

    Avant CTV 28", V6000, DVD1, BC9000, BS3000, BL4000, MX4200, CX50, BeoCom 2, Beocom 6000, LC1, LC2

  • 02-15-2008 5:46 AM In reply to

    • Beobird
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    Re: HDR1 upgrade

    spotgest:
    The 250 Gb upgrade costs 185 EUR in Portugal.

    I would go for a much larger disk of 500GB (130,- euro) or maybe 1TB (230,- euro) and ghost the image on the old one to the new one. Better to much than that you have to update again in a couple of years... 

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  • 02-17-2008 10:09 AM In reply to

    Re: HDR1 upgrade

    This won't work, thrust me.

    The only option is to make a ghost of a 250 GB and buy yourself a Fujitsu drive 250GB and make an image.

    Don't forget to enter the right amount of GB's in the service menu.

     

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