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Yamaha MusicCAST Hard Drive Uprgrade Info
This is just an FYI post.
According to Yamaha you have to bring the the MusicCAST into a service location to have the hard drive upgraded, but my friend and I have just learned that isn't really the case. If you are willing to loose your data (we weren't able to find any hard drive imaging software that would address the drive format used by the MusicCAST, and we tried software from Seagate, Disk Image 2002 , and Ghost Corporate 7.0), you can just pop in a larger drive, then use the "MusicCAST Software Version Up Disc" CD to "bless" the new drive. (You can order this CD from Yamaha, but they don't let you download it) When you boot up the MusiCAST for the first time after installing the new drive the screen will display SET RECOVERY CD. At that point insert the "MusicCAST Software Version Up Disc", and let it do it's thing. We found that the first time we did this we saw a disk write error when it got to writing the FONT to the disk. So we restarted the MusicCAST, and let it run through the process again, and it worked fine. We think this may have happened because the new drive had a partition on it already from the manufacturer, and that the first cycle through cleared the partition and the second time running the Version Up Disc actually setup everything on the drive. I hope this post helps anyone looking to upgrade their MusicCAST at home and not involve other people or companies. Alex. Standard Disclaimer: I have no idea what doing this will do to your warranty, so be carefull. |
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