How to clone the HD of the mackie d8b

[Carlo]

Thanks Bitsync for your explanation.

Cheers....wish you luck with you CF approach

[Carlo]

I assume that after you booted the new image, the d8b didn't asked for the codes. As an image the HD worked like the original and all codes were unlocked like the original i believe.

[bitSync]

I assume that after you booted the new image, the d8b didn't asked for the codes. As an image the HD worked like the original and all codes were unlocked like the original i believe.

Yes. As far as the d8b could tell, it was the same drive as it had booted from before.

[Carlo]

Thanks Mate

[tmarkov1]

I, too am interested in replacing my Internal HD with an SSD replacement. I have began using the D8B in a live setting.. not a whole lot of movement of the console, but I worry about the low frequency eventually getting to the drive and causing errors, down the line. What SSD drives have worked for this?

[bitSync]

I had great success with the 4 GB Team Compact Flash (TEAM TG004G2NCFJX 233X R).

http://www.d8bforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1088&start=30#p8821

I had substantial grief with the Transcend 32 GB PATA SSD, but the success with the Compact Flash more than made up for it.

[bbb]

I, too am interested in replacing my Internal HD with an SSD replacement. I have began using the D8B in a live setting.. not a whole lot of movement of the console, but I worry about the low frequency eventually getting to the drive and causing errors, down the line. What SSD drives have worked for this?

I would also recommend the Compact Flash HDD replacement.

Go to "Replacing the HDD with a Compact Flash card" on the bottom of this page :

http://www.sonido-7.com/d8b/tpis.html

I followed Todd's instructions and it works perfectly...it's an inexpensive solution as well. > $17.00

>parts - here's what I used:

1. IDE to Compact Flash Adapter - it's on ebay, seller is novatech88: Item number: 251468970505- $8.99

2. Team 2GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card Model TG002G2NCFFX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820313247 - $6.99

3. "Power cable that converts a hard drive power connection to a floppy drive power connection"
I found this cable inside the Mackie power supply (under the metal cover)

Best of luck with this,
Bruce Brody

[Carlo]

Carlo,

Just a quick update for you. I got a couple of replacement Maxtor 20 GB drives off of eBay at about $10 each. I succeeded in cloning a replacement drive from a drive image I made from the original d8b. I used the free/trial Macrium Reflect 5.2 software to do it. The original drive image copy took about 13 minutes to transfer the 20 GB image from the original d8b drive to a host computer. It took another 13 minutes to restore that image to one of the new drives. The new drive is now a carbon copy of the original source drive. For the imaging, I attached the drives to the host computer using an inexpensive external USB2-PATA drive adapter. Once finished, I put the newly imaged hard drive in the d8b and it booted and ran perfectly. Everything transferred over just fine. Super easy. Even though I intend to ultimately go with a non-mechanical storage solution this certainly works well as disaster recovery insurance. Please let me know if you have any questions or want more details.

Still trying to get my d8b to boot from an SSD but that's another story...

Dear BitSync

can you please tell me how large is the image size please?

[bitSync]

Hey Carlo,

The image size is whatever size the source drive is, so for the original d8b Maxtor it's a 20 GB image. When I wrote out the image to the 4 GB Flash Card the Reflect software just truncated the image to whatever size the target media is, so 4 GB of the source image was written to the Compact Flash card. The truncation is no issue since 4 GB is massively larger than any data that might have been on the source image.

[Carlo]

I see, thanks very much

Is it possible to split the image file from 20GB into smaller chunks e.g 4gb sizes for easy of transfer?
Is the Macrium Reflect 5.2 software capable of splitting the image?

Regards

Carlo