How to clone the HD of the mackie d8b

[Carlo]

Dear All,

Is it possible to clone the HD of the mackie d8b using standard methods on windows?

Any ideas how to do it?

Thanks

Carlo

[bitSync]

Hi Carlo,

I'm about to attempt that very thing except going from the Mackie hard drive to a solid state drive using Acronis TrueImage. I'll let you know how I make out. Yesterday I was able to mount the Mackie d8b hard drive on my Win7 x64 machine using a USB2-PATA external drive adapter and navigate the directories on the Mackie hard drive using Windows Explorer (File Manager).

[Carlo]

Hi bitSyc,

#This is cool.

Let us know and good luck


Carlo

[Carlo]

Hi BitSync,

Any feedback regarding the cloning?

Regards

C

[bitSync]

Hi Carlo,

It's a busy week. I may not get to it until Friday or the weekend. I promise to get back to you once I've tried this. Thanks.

[Carlo]

OK thanks loads

[bitSync]

Hi Carlo,

Just a progress report for you. Last night I succeeded (I think) in cloning a new 32 GB SSD drive from the Maxtor 20 GB HDD in the Mackie CPU/PSU. I did this with both the source HDD and the new destination SSD temporarily attached to a Win7 host externally using inexpensive USB2-PATA drive adapters. The clone was done using Acronis True Image 2014 software but I believe there are free/trial applications out there that will do the same thing (e.g., Macrium Reflect 5.2). The resulting file system is FAT32 just like the source HDD and the file counts, sizes and directory structure are identical. From the Win7 host I can traverse the SSD Mackie OS file system with Windows Explorer and see all the files. I have not yet succeeded in booting the d8b CPU from the new SSD but I hope to conquer that this weekend. I'm capturing all of my steps in a process document for posterity. I'll let you know how booting from the SSD works out. Best regards.

[Carlo]

Hi BitSync,

That's good news. Thanks for sharing.

PATA you mean IDE?

Let ma know if you manage to get the SSD running with all the authorised plugins etc.

Best regards

Carlo

[bitSync]

Yes, PATA = IDE. I'll keep you posted.

[Carlo]

Cheers