Hi

If you want to copy/clone current Beomaster 5 drive, the only problems you will have is new SSD drive itself. Samsung SSD and others will not work - period. You have to get Crucial MX300 - 500 or 1Tb drive and just clone old drive to new, cloning 500GB to 1 TB will be no issue. You do not need any cloning devices etc. Put your old BM5 drive in enclose or your computer and clone to a new drive.

If you do not know how to do this take to any computer shops and they will do it. Trust me it is simple job.

 

Having B&O service tool will help as the system will help you replace drive and will assign serial numbers etc. The tool is not necessary to upgrade the drive by cloning, but it would be helpful to all of us if you want to change motherboard, drive (without cloning) , so if anyone has one please post download link

 

Thanks

 

Looks like we need to persuade Geencar to share the usb content :)

Since the update server is down, I would consider this as the end of support, that means that we as a community should keep the support in our own group, like we do for Beo5/6.

I join the ask for the shared tool.

Hi Aleksei,

I think our exchange will better fit here so I'll copy it over from the other threat.

 

Aleksei wrote:

That may be true if you are experienced to work with linux gparted. When launched, I was afraid to do something wrong while calculating the figures, so I went to more intuitive EaseUS instead, that, unfortunately looks to corrupt MBR. Thus, after extending the disk I performed recovery and update.

I believe the community will be grateful if you would shere step-by-step instruction how to use gparted for this case.

Aleskei

For gparted HDD partion resizing.

 

get Rufus: https://rufus.ie

get GParted Live bootable image (ISO) according to your processor architecture : https://gparted.org/download.php

Use Rufus to create a bootable USB stick. Video: http://youtu.be/1wDvQRLX4GM

Allow Boot from USB in your BIOS Boot Settings

Boot your PC from the GParted Live USB-Stick

I did this on a PC where I connected the cloned BS5 HDD , I did not work on the BM5 !!!!

You are working on the cloned HDD, if domething goes wrong, you can clone your BM5-HDD once more and start over again.

To resize the partion of the cloned disk from 500GB to 1TB (if your new HDD is 1TB) , in this Video you see how to get the unallocated space to the place where you need it : http://youtu.be/SALU-jmUiuc

an other video for the whole process with YUMI instead of RUFUS:

http://youtu.be/0czAJwEbtFs

hope this helps

gerard

I changed my HDD to an SSD Model :

Crucial MS500 1TB , worked without problem.

I cloned my original 500GB B&O HDD, I will have to pump the SSD to 1TB, using gparted.

I took some pictures from the swap and will bring a little HowTo once the SSD is repartioned. This is no problem using a PC/MAC with a Gparted Live Stick.

This time I will try it on the BM5, this way there will not be any danger repartioning the PC/MAC HDD instead of the BM5.

I'll keep you informed.

EDIT:

wanted to do this today, but time is missing, this has to wait for 2 Weeks

see you then

A little update to my repartioning of the BS5 SSD to 1TB, I want to do it on the BM5/BS5 but I'm struggling to get the gparted Live GUI to work.

gParted may be booted on the BM5

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I think the problem comes from the Crucial MX500 not being tealy compatible with the BM5. 

I have random boot problems where the BM5 does not see/find the Crucial SSD.

I have ordered a new SSD, a Sandisc ULTRA 3D 1TB and I will report if there are still boot problems.

So far, my Crucial MX? has worked fine for nearly 2 years.  Please report back on the success/failure of the Sandisc in case my Crucial starts flaking out like yours did.

Stan

For 2 days, there is no problem with the Sandisk ULTRA 3D SSD 1TB.

The Crucial MX500 never worked for a whole day. The wake-up from standby was the problem. I mostly had to power off the BM5 3-5 times in a row to have one boot to complete. once booted it worked fine and fast till the next standby.

I came to the Sandisk after researching the Controller, it seems as if there is also a WesternDigital SSD (a twin of the sandisk) which uses the same controller and also a Plextor SSD with the Marvell 88SS1074

Edit: 25-12-2019

The Sandisk ULTRA 3D SSD still works perfectly

Hi Gerard,

"The Sandisk ULTRA 3D SSD still works perfectly"

Are you using this model: Sandisk Ultra 3D (SDSSDH3-1T00-G25) 1TB

 

thank you in advance!

 

 

AMD4ME wrote:

Hi Gerard,

"The Sandisk ULTRA 3D SSD still works perfectly"

Are you using this model: Sandisk Ultra 3D (SDSSDH3-1T00-G25) 1TB

thank you in advance!

After checking my amazon orders it seems to be the :

SDSSDH3-1T00-G25

and it still works perfectly