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I have just bought a used BS5/BM5 set. I descided to go for an instant upgrade and clone the HDD to a new SSD drive. Sadly, I now get the message "Boot failure. Insert system disc and press enter" when I boot both the original and the cloned SSD drive. I have been very careful not to format the original data on the standard HDD. However, I did not even try switching the system on before starting this process so I really don't know if the disc was dead on arrival. If I connect the original HDD to the computer I can the four partitions but there are only files in the first one. The others seem to be empty (!!). I cannot understand this as I was very carefull with making the orginal drive the source and the new drive the target. The files, however seem to be gone I have tried to recover the disc but it cannot find any files to recover apart from files in the first partition. Even if I deep scan the drive it does not find anything whatsoever in the other three partitions.
Is it possible to imprint the image file from another BeoMaster 5 HDD to my HDD and then alter the serial number to match the one on my BM5?
Else I am afraid that the only solution is sending it in for repair at the B&O dealer.
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Does anybody have the system files as an .iso? That would be very helpful
How did you proceed with the cloning? If you did not do any adjustment to the original drive it seems like the fault was already there but you might have done something without even realizing it perhaps?
The message you get is a common boot failure message on PC´s so I would check that all cables are connected as they where. Since I don't have access to your data I can't say if the data is there or if it is anything else on the drive.
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Hi Frederik,
may be you converted the disk by accident from basic disk to dynamic disk..There will be no data loss, but the disk will not boot anymore
I now some partitioning/copy softwares will ask you this question when you connect a disk.It is very easy to press enter twice with this as a result ..When the disk is changed to dynamic, it will not boot anymore ...With a software called partition magic you can convert it back from dynamic to basic.
I suggest you try it first on the ssd ... :-)
this link will tell you some more
http://www.partitionwizard.com/help/convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic-disk.html
http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic-disk.htm
Also, make may be some pictures how the system sees your disk in bios setting. When you connect for example a USB disk or CDROM for extra storage or cd drive on the BM5 it can happen the bios pointed this as boot device, and then you will have also the error "no boot device"In bios you can see and eventually modify boot order
best regards
nico
Hello everyone,
Thank you so much for your answers! I tried running a very thorough deep scan of the files in the original harddrive but it found only files in the small first partition. All other partitions were wiped clean .
I sent it to my local dealer yesterday. He promised me to install new software directly onto the SSD
I am so looking forward to using the system! I really don't know how it could end this badly as I only used the cloning tool.