General Forum

Re: HDR1 upgrade

Beobuddy — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:09:40 GMT

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.

Re: HDR1 upgrade

Beobird — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:46:03 GMT

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...

Re: HDR1 upgrade

BEOfreak — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:29:52 GMT

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

Thank you all for your replies

Best regards Rasmus

Re: HDR1 upgrade

spotgest — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:15:00 GMT

The 250 Gb upgrade costs 185 EUR in Portugal.

Re: HDR1 upgrade

Bart — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:57:25 GMT

It's an official B&O-upgrade which can be done by the dealer. Don't know the costs involved.

Re: HDR1 upgrade

beocool — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:23:01 GMT

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...

Re: HDR1 upgrade

Zwets — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:58:04 GMT

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.

Re: HDR1 upgrade

Bart — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:08:45 GMT

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

Bart

HDR1 upgrade

BEOfreak — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:04:28 GMT

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