There are no hidden screws, but the case sits quite tight. When you turn it around, you may pull the cover off by connecting a cable to the back (e.g. a display cable).

Btw, the HDD is also screwed very tightly, I used a plier to loosen the two left hand screws..

Good luck, Robert

Hi

Remove only bottom screws and slide the cover to the front. It is tight but will go off.

CooperS wrote:

... you may pull the cover off by connecting a cable to the back (e.g. a display cable)...

🤒🤒🤒🤒 That's it 🤩🤩

CooperS wrote:

Btw, the HDD is also screwed very tightly, I used a plier to loosen the two left hand screws..

Good luck, Robert

No problem here, I took it out with the anti-vibration support so that it was easy to access the HDD screws.

Nice to see the effort BO took to get the less noise from the HDD, especialy the glued mat on the HDD.

Now cloning is on its way from the original

Hitachi CinemaStar 500GB from 10-2008 to a

WD Caviar Green 1.0TB WD10EARS which I had liing arround.

Process going on in the sharkoon USB3.0 HDD docking station.

How did you manage to resize the new HDD, if this one was bigger than the original one?

The newly cloned disk has 4 partions, 3 of them are B&O Partions, Data, BMSystem, System, these are protected

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Did you give all the new space to DATA, or also to System and BMSystem?

I did not change the size, my HDD was already 1 TB.

 

This is my interpretation of the partition purpose:

SYSTEM: contains Windows XP embedded (no need to change size)

BM-System: contains the BM5 programs (no need to change size)

DATA: this is where the music is stored. My partition is much larger than yours: 923.7 GB, I would give it a try to change the size.

 

Good luck, Robert

 

I just have resized the cloned HDD, but the BS5 does not boot to 100%.

Starting is stoped with an error :

Unable to write to E:\BM-Share\ ...

As I had to gain access to the 1TB on a Windows Pc I've tested several things including rightsmanagement.

I will restart from scratch and keep you informed.

BTW how did you connect a mouse to the BM5, mine did not respond.

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Both problems you described ocurred to me as well - this is where you realise that the embedded version is not a fully fledged Windows XP😭!

"Unable to write" - always ocurred after I attempted to align the partitions - try first to boot the BM5 with the unmodified offline clone copy of the HDD / SSD (this was my "simple solution" at the end... I did not have to alter the size of partitions but this might be the reason for this error.

"mouse does not work" - I had the same problem. Initially, I attached a monitor to the second display port, subsequently the mouse did not work. Try the following: use a USB 2.0 splitter, connect mouse and keyboard but not a monitor. Then proceed to the Windows XP screen - it worked for me.

Good luck, Robert

CooperS wrote:

"Unable to write" - always ocurred after I attempted to align the partitions

What do you understand by align partions.

There us also a difference using the HDD on Windows or Linux:

Win: DATA and BM-System may not be accessed

Linux: all 4 Partitions may be accessed.

CooperS wrote:

try first to boot the BM5 with the unmodified offline clone copy of the HDD ...

This worked with out a problem.

At boot I was asked if I want to start BM or BM Recovery, with BM at default.

What does this stand for?

After the resizing I noticed that the BM took much longer to start before it brought the error message. Perhaps because of the bigger size?

"BM or BM Recovery" - the working and default system to boot is BM, I never used BM Recovery which seems to be a rescue option.

Please check my previous post regarding partition alignment on Windows XP, there is also plenty of other posts on this subject (unrelated to BM5). It improves write speed by aligning the partitions to the optimal SSD format. Please note that all my attempts to align partitions failed, creating the errors you describe.

My BM5 now runs very well with an unaligned SSD, so maybe the issue is overrated...

With the optimizing SSD related tasks, there is no need to access DATA and BM-System.

best, Robert

gerard wrote:

I just have resized the cloned HDD, but the BS5 does not boot to 100%.

Starting is stoped with an error :

Unable to write to E:\BM-Share\ ...

As I had to gain access to the 1TB on a Windows Pc I've tested several things including rightsmanagement.

I will restart from scratch and keep you informed.

BTW how did you connect a mouse to the BM5, mine did not respond.

 

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In my experience this error always occurs when any changes are made to the partition table, for example, when enlarging the data partition after cloning to a disk larger than the original, so is not specific to cloning onto an SSD - the changes to the partition table cause XP to become confused as to which partition is which, so the BM-SHARE partition does not get mounted.

You can choose BM Recovery at boot and run through the recovery process which seems to fix this issue, and the system should then boot fine afterwards (you'll need to let it do the software updates afterwards too).

Martin.