Imminent SSD and CPU Fan Upgrade

[bbb]

I don't know if I've seen this process using the HDD image restore (vs. rebuilding from the DOS and OS floppies). Is it worth writing it up?

As far as I know, you're the 1st to report on creating and successfully restoring from an HDD image. It's definitely worth writing up.

Great Work!
Bruce Brody

[Petersueco]

How did you manage to fit the 20Gb image from the original HD into the 4 GB card?
Did you use any special parameters in the Macrium Reflect software to truncate away part of the image?
No missing files in the card? I guess you didn't had that much info in the drive then.

[bitSync]

How did you manage to fit the 20Gb image from the original HD into the 4 GB card?
Did you use any special parameters in the Macrium Reflect software to truncate away part of the image?
No missing files in the card? I guess you didn't had that much info in the drive then.

Hi Peter,

This is my d8b #2 which I decided to do all my upgrade experimenting/prototyping/flame testing with (my d8b #1 is doing sessions). I purchased this d8b #2 used and the previous owner had Mackie OS 5.0 on there and only a few project files. But 4 GB is massively larger than any collection of project files I can imagine. I think the original 20 GB Maxtor may have been overkill for the actual storage requirements.

The Macrium Reflect 5.2 will just truncate the source image it writes to the destination drive, no special parameters. When I installed the imaged 4 GB compact flash in the d8b the system booted like a charm recognizing the compact flash as the boot drive. Imaging the 20 GB Maxtor onto the 4 GB compact flash did a byte-for-byte image of the first 4 GB from the hard drive's image onto the compact flash.

I purchased an IDE-to-Compact Flash adapter that fits into an empty card slot on the back of the CPU so I can get to the boot drive media without opening the case.

I'm thinking about writing this drive imaging thing up if it would be of any value to the d8b community. This is a great alternative to rebuilding a copy of the original drive by using the DOS and Mackie OS floppies and then copying over saved session files, reactivating the OS and plug-ins, etc.; it's especially useful when you have a functioning HDD. With the imaging it's just a 2 step process. Copy the d8b Maxtor 20 GB HDD image to a host machine and then write out the saved image to the new media (compact flash in my case).

My boot attempts with the Transcend 32 GB SSDs didn't work out; the BIOS never detected the drive, although from Macrium Reflect on the cloning host machine had no issues writing out the image to the SSD. The 4 GB compact flash approach was a breeze.