Upgrade beomaster 5 harddisk

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Hi Martin,

i got this error on the original disk =  unable to read the contents of this file system 

but the strange is i can hear music from it and just tried to copy from it without any problems.

right now i am copying my music over that should be done within a 5 hours or so and then i will be able to test more how stable the it is.

talk to you on sunday 

Cheers 

Michael 

Where / when did this error appear? During boot or whilst using the product? On the TV/monitor or on the BS5 screen?

Martin.

Location: Exeter, UK

after the cloning i loaded up Gpart and then error came 

but before i cloned the disk last time i had started the recovery and that one crashed or what ever it did after the 1 st task it just stopped and then i inserted the original disk and that one worked fine i shoot it down and did another cloning and then the error came when i loaded part up

so i am afraid i it destroyed the data on the original disk but it still works and i can play music from there 

does the above makes any sense?

Michael 

Ah, ok, so it was gparted that gave that error message? and your original disk is still working perfectly in the BM5? you are not experiencing these reboots if you use your BM5 with the original disk? only with the 'cloned' 2TB disk?

The random reboots I think were an issue experienced by some users who tried installing SSD in the BM5 so I wonder if this is perhaps related to the model of disk used rather than a problem with the cloning and resizing but it's difficult to say for certain.

I would generally recommend against deleting a partition and creating a new one (as opposed to resizing an existing partition) as it is more likely to lead to issues with drive letter allocation in Windows.

Do you see the N.MUSIC, N.RADIO, PHOTO, WEB main menu on the BM5 display after booting?

 

 

 

 

Location: Exeter, UK

Hi again,

i am not sure about the reboots i have not tested that much right now i am copying to the 2 TB HD and i have not that attached in BM5 is way too slow that way 

i am going to hopefully test within a few hours to attach the 2 TB Drive on the BM5 and then i can test how stable it is 

the 2 TB HD is the WD20EURX 

will report back later during the weekend how it is running 

Michael 

Hi Martin,

well it looks like it is working 😁

Last night i copied all my 44000 flac files over and i have been listening to music the whole day 

no reboot or anything so it looks REALLY good 

i really can't thank you enough for all your help 

Thank you so very much for all your help 😁

Michael 

Michael wrote:

Last night i copied all my 44000 flac files over and i have been listening to music the whole day 

no reboot or anything so it looks REALLY good 

Hi Michael,

Good to hear it's all working 😁

Michael wrote:

i really can't thank you enough for all your help 

Thank you so very much for all your help 😁

A pleasure.

Kind Regards,

Martin.

Location: Exeter, UK

Hi all,

something weird is happening with my beosound/beomaster 5 today it reboots like every 10-15 minutes but it is only when it is in standby mode 

it have been working perfectly for the last 2-3 weeks after i upgraded the HD and been using it alot in that period 

anyone experienced the same thing ? 

Cheers 

Michael 

 

Hi,

3-4 weeks ago i made a new clone of my HD it have been running perfectly the last 3-4 weeks 

then saturday i added the last of my music and last night it keeps on rebooting it is only doing it in standby mode 

i can see there is loads of crash logs but not sure what to look after.

anyone have a good idea what can be wrong 

i went from a 1 TB to a 2 TB HD 

Michael 

Hi Michael,

So both times when you have cloned the disk it has run faultlessly for a few weeks and then you start to see this reboot issue?

Given the reboots of the BM5 only occur whilst the BS5 is in standby I guess there must be some housekeeping task that only runs when the system is not being used, or the problem is related to the power saving mode.

First I would try disabling the power saving in the BS5 menu and see if the problem persists.

Next I would try deleting the music files you added most recently to see if the problem stops (in case there are one or more of these files that the BM5 is not managing to process without crashing).

Maybe even try deleting all the music files (but don't do a recovery) to see if the rebooting stops so we can determine whether it is related to these files or due to some other corruption of Windows system files.

Do the crash logs give any indication as to which process / driver etc causes the crash?

Martin.

 

Location: Exeter, UK

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