It was a long time ago, so I can't remember precisely.

To be clear, my upgrade was from 1TB (factory installed) to 2TB HDD, not SSD (I'm planning at some point to move from 2TB HDD to 2TB SSD).

I connected both drives to a linux PC, and used dd to copy the existing drive to the new drive, then used parted to expand the data partition to fill the extra 1TB.

At this point, having reinstalled the new drive in the BM5, I seem to recall there was a popup error dialog box from XP during boot - sorry, too long ago to remember exactly what error, but given this was an windows popup, it was obviously quite late in the boot process.

I rebooted the BM5 and selected 'BM5 recovery' from the boot menu and proceeded to reinstall the factory software from there, and after this process was complete the BM5 booted fine, but was obviously on an old version, so next I triggered a software update (from the menu on the BS5).

I didn't use of the B&O service tool at all.

Hope this helps,

Martin.

riverstyx wrote:

I rebooted the BM5 and selected 'BM5 recovery' from the boot menu and proceeded to reinstall the factory software from there, and after this process was complete the BM5 booted fine, but was obviously on an old version, so next I triggered a software update (from the menu on the BS5).

I didn't use of the B&O service tool at all.

Hope this helps,

Martin.

Thanks for your quick response Martin.
After what you've typed, the steps are now a lot clearder to me.
I had already done the BM5 recovery step. That next step you are talking about (software update from the menu on the BS5) is it just to be found when you log into Windows XP embedded?
I don't have a beomaster 5 myself, but I do it for someone else and he has the beomaster 5 at his home. So now I cannot check in real time where the software update from the menu on the BS5 is exactly.
thanks!

 

P.S.
For others who are reading this:
I cloned the original HDD to this SSD:
Sandisk Ultra 3D (SDSSDH3-1T00-G25) 1TB
This SSD has the Marvell 88SS1074 as controller and works perfectly in the Beomaster 5.👍

The software update should happen automatically given time, but if you google for the 'Beosound 5 installation guide' and look at page 34 of this pdf, you'll find the procedure for triggering it manually, either with or without a BS5 connected.

Kind regards,

Martin.

AMD4ME wrote:

P.S. How did you clone it on the Sandisk Ultra 3D SSD? Many thanks!

Sorry for the late answer,

My first cloning HDD 500GB -> HDD 1TB was done with the sharkoon clone station as described here in the forum.

After that I started a just for fun project:

cloning the hdd to ssd on the BM5 with the help of a linux boot stick running on the BM5 , there are pictures of this project somewhere here on the forum. But it never came to an end, was working at 90%, I think I was nearby to succeed, but could not figure the last errors and as there was little interest here gor the project I stopped loosing time.

To clone the HDD to the Ultra 3D SSD , I used the service tool which I managed to get my hands on in the meantime. This worked very well and I would recommend using it.

regards

gerard

riverstyx wrote:

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I'm planning at some point to move from 2TB HDD to 2TB SSD

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If you have any new info on compatible SSDs keep us informed.

regards

gerard