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

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

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

Thank you all for your help. Much appreciated!

Hopefully this information will also help other users

Take note before thinking about changing Hard drive!