Nope, you can't.

BM5's serial number is stored in/on both manboard's BIOS and on the harddrive.

Both has to be present, otherwise no updates will be available.

Yes, you can upgrade hard drive in  BeoMaster 5. If you clone the old harddisk to the new, it is possible without the Service Tool. !

I know you can upgrade the size of harddisc, but are the updates still downloadable?

I've done this 2years ago, cloning, resizing, in different ways. Even with the dynamic hidden partion/folder on the fourth partition.

But it didn't seem stable at that time.

It worked, but totally unexpected blue screen of death's appeared once and a while.

I've done it for 1 year ago with mine. I replaced my 500 GB for a 1Tb hard drive. And it still works flawlessly.

Could you please explain how you upgraded the drive to work flawlessly? 🙂

I used a hard drive cloning Set. And copied over the old hdd to the new one. Then i expanded only storage partition on the new drive using a disk partition program.

I used a hard drive cloning Set. And copied over the old hdd to the new one. Then i expanded only storage partition on the new drive using a disk partition program.

I'm thinking of upgrading mine to an SSD... How many CDs do a 512gb fit? or should i go for a 700+gb SSD?

Only other moving part is the fan... and that can be replaced aswell i believe? Maybe with a fluidbearing silent one??

I want it to last as long as the B&O Stereo my dad bought in the 80s... 20+ years... And thats NOT going to happen with a spinning disk drive...