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Upgrade beomaster 5 harddisk

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andy_js
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andy_js replied on Thu, Jan 19 2017 10:52 PM

This may not be good for the components.  Static (from the carpet) can damage them.

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Kiran replied on Fri, Jan 20 2017 6:35 AM
The SSD is back inside the BM5.

It's running lightning quick.

I wish I could take a video. When I scroll the wheel, it's like it goes on for infinity in my track list. I have around 10K tracks on a NAS.

I hope it stays like this. It's so fast and fluid. There no jerks. It's now had its MOT 😂😂

I think I did it!!! 😝😝😝

My previous posts contain exact steps I took 👍🏻👍🏻

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Kiran

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nico vercammen
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that's good news !
Hope you do not have problems booting from it ..
The system boots after a couple of days automatically (the only way to get XP stable i guess ...) 

I tried (as several other people did also)  sometime ago with the  samsung SSD. copying the disk was no problem but booting was a problem... It booted not always because the motherboard does not support it 100 %  ...
When it booted from the SSD  it was indeed fast. but because the BM5 boot automatically after a couple of days it is not usable ...
I use now a hybrid disk and the result is also good but not as fast as 100 % SSD ;-)

Keep us informed if there are no problem booting the system every time 

 

nico

 

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Kiran replied on Fri, Jan 20 2017 5:05 PM
nico vercammen:

that's good news ! Hope you do not have problems booting from it .. The system boots after a couple of days automatically (the only way to get XP stable i guess ...)

I tried (as several other people did also) sometime ago with the samsung SSD. copying the disk was no problem but booting was a problem... It booted not always because the motherboard does not support it 100 % ... When it booted from the SSD it was indeed fast. but because the BM5 boot automatically after a couple of days it is not usable ... I use now a hybrid disk and the result is also good but not as fast as 100 % SSD ;-)

Keep us informed if there are no problem booting the system every time

nico

Mine booted 1st try and hasn't rebooted since.

I was also playing music from my nas straight away just after selecting the nas as a music source. Normally it would take ages gathering all the music from the nas and it wouldn't even play until it's read all the tracks.

Hopefully it stays this way 👍🏻👍🏻

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Kiran

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Kiran replied on Fri, Jan 20 2017 5:30 PM
Okay I'm having one problem which I was having before with the old hard drive too.

When the music source is NAS, it keeps rebooting as soon as I press N.Music.

I have changed it back to internal hard drive and now working perfect lightning quick again.

I don't have twonky running. Could this be it?

I don't think my Seagate NAS can do Twonky?

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Kiran

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wantoniak replied on Tue, Jan 24 2017 6:23 AM

Did you replace with SSD?

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Kiran replied on Tue, Jan 24 2017 6:28 AM
Yes everything works fine except selecting music from NAS

My NAS isn't running Twonky so this maybe why it cuts out?

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Kiran

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I have a Beomaster 5 with hard drive brake. 

I need install the windows xp and original Bang & Olufsen Soft.

Haw can i make this. ?

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frog replied on Fri, Jul 27 2018 7:11 PM

Short answer is - you can't...  Firstly - are you sure it is the HDD? Quite often it is the motherboard.

Try pulling out the disk and seeing if you can access all the partitions on the disk - if you can, then the likely problem is the MB. This can be replaced by either a B&O one or a MB which is mostly compatible - you just need to do a bit of surgery on it (there is a good thread in this forum that explains how to do it.

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Hi Martin

I know it's an old post, but I just recently bought a 1TB BS5/BM5 and so far I have successfully upgraded it with WD Blue SSD.

My initial intention was to expand available storage to 2TB, but I only managed to use it up to 1TB. When I do re-partitioning with MiniTool Partition Wizard, BM5 boots up normally, but when I select Mode->System on main navigation screen (to check available space), system crashes instantly. For the same reason I cannot enter the Service Menu to reboot it from Service Tool USB and do the Recovery... :-/

I've seen from your posts that you uses Gparted. I used MiniTool PW (doing it on another PC), as IMO all disk partition tools should be doing the job more-less the same way. Are there some additional steps/parameter settings which I am missing?

I am using BV7-40 as a monitor, have Service Tool USB and keyboard/mouse combo. I haven't transferred any music yet, so doing everything from scratch.

All suggestions are welcome

Thank you

Damir

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fangio replied on Wed, Feb 2 2022 11:46 AM

Hello Damir

 

which WD Blue harddisk do you have installed ?

It works fine ?

 

Greetings

 

Stefan

 

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