Anyone got an 80gb drive image ?

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Wayne
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Anyone got an 80gb drive image ?

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I might be in need of one !!
Wayne
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Post by Wayne »

scrap this request, i'm sorted i used another 40gb drive ... but i might actually have one now :)
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Andy Cippico
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Our resident egg-head Geert Jan and Andy Wilkinson have been looking at getting one together. You might PM them and ask. I'm sure the image will appear here when it's done.

Andy.
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pm'd Geert .... said i'll do an image as soon as i get chance, but i might also be persuaded to sell the drive if they're interested :lol: :lol: it would seem it will be no use to me in my JVC units without the correct eeprom chip/firmware .... and it would be a waste to use it in a pc :oops:
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Hi,

I have bought a HM-HDS1EU with a defective hard drive. It turned out that the 80GB Maxtor drive was only working sometimes.

I managed to ripp of an image, and copied this back to a Hitachi HDS722580VLAT20 80GB drive I had flying around.

Shortly after playing around a bit with the maxtor, it finally died, and i have thrown it away. :)

After mounting the Hitachi drive in the VCR, it works like on the first day.

I can provide an image file, the language set is German.
How many sectors are interesting, the first 2048 MB?

Regards,
Steve
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Andy Cippico
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Hi Steve,

Funnily enough, I had an email recently from someone who managed to do almost exactly what you've done. He discovered that the HM-HDS4 80GB Hitachi drive works fine in the later HM-HDS1 models (the ones that have been 'chipped' to use a larger drive).

If you want, I can publish your offer of an image on the main website. I'll say something like:
"Steve can provide a copy of the 80GB image. Refer to the following post: http://xxxxxxxxx where you can contact him."

With reference to how much of the disk is important: I'm afraid we don't know, although Geert Jan's HM-HDS1 image is at least 3GB. You could start by just doing that amount.

Regards,
Andy.
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