Hi, Beoworlders,

Has anybody upgraded the drive in the HDR 2?

Id love to put a 1.5tB Western D Green inside but Im not sure of the formatting of the new drive & whether a SATA-Eide converter would work without any problems.

Anyone out there tried this idea?It would be truly wonderfull to be able to store so much films & drama in one place accesible over Beolink.        Douglas.

  Hi Douglas,

You are not the first one, believe me. There are several members who tried including me amongst them.

It is not possible to replace the harddrive with a larger one.

First of all, the size of the drive has to be set in the servicemenu of the HDR. The HDR will not recognize it´s size automatically. And for instance, the settings doesn´t allow you to store sizes bigger then three digits (999)MB.

But second, the format isn´t just an ordinairy Fat32, NTFS etc. So just inserting an empty formatted disk will not work.

So, you´re probably stuck with just 250GB´s.

There are lots of alternatives like several Settop Boxes with internal drives or mediaplayers with internal disks and NAS function.

What about cloneing the harddrive and then enlarging the free space on the partition. has anybody tried this.

I'm afraid disk cloning software doesn't work that way - they need to know what format the disk is in so that it can work on working on sector and cluster copying. Extending the partition size involves changing the FAT (or equivalent). As the unit is IIRC a Philips unit - maybe there is some research done on the disk format on the equivalent Philips device.