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Replacing Hard Drive on 440 Model
Does anyone know whether it is possible to easily upgrade the 80GB Hard drive to a larger size on the Pioneer 440 DVD Recorder?
I have successfully replaced one in a Humax PVR, but have heard that you need to follow a set proceedure. Not a simple matter of just swapping drives over, or can you? If proceedure is not straight forward, could you simply make a copy of the hard drive image using say: Norton Ghost software & copy to larger drive & then fit in Pioneer. I would be interested to receive feedback & ideas, suggestions. PIO_USER
Last edited by pio_user : 14-03-2007 at 13:28. |
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Normally this isn't possible. The firmware normally contains the specified HDD size, so even if you do ghost the image onto a larger HDD, say 160GB, the recorder will still see it as a 80GB HDD as this is all it is being told it has by the firmware.
I have heard that Humax don't work like this. From what people have said about replacing HDD's on Humax boxes, they must simply determine how much free space / used space is present on the HDD, as opposed to fixing the size in the FW. I have never heard of anyone sucessfully upgrading a HDD on a recorder like this |
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I have a Pioneer DVR433 and was thinking along the same lines.
Found this site when researching the idea http://www.pioneerfaq.info/english/d...on=replace_hdd scroll down the page and there is info for the 440 All looks very complicated to me cheers CJ Last edited by cjbigboy : 14-03-2007 at 14:49. |
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Thank you all for your help. Much appreciated!
Hopefully this information will also help other users Take note before thinking about changing Hard drive! |
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