LinkStation Live (new design) - change of hard disc

[Pivo]

   

Hey together,

 

I own a well running LinkStation Live (2nd Generation) HS-DH500GL.

 

I wanted change the 500 GB hard disc (which I will use in my desktop) to a 1 TB one.

 

I opend the LinkStation and changed the disc (the new one was in factory conditions - not formatted or partitioned).

After reassembling the LinkStation, I switched it on waiting for the initialization process as I expect starting automatically as I was injured from other brands like Netgear a.s.o.

But nothing happend. Only the blink and beep pattern of the error LED for 'disc error' appeared.

 

It looked like even the boot loader comes from the hard disc and not from the flash memory at the LinkStation.

Also I can't get neither any IP access by web browser nor access with the NASNavi or with the firmware updater (device not found).

Also the maintaining screen of my router did not show the LinkStation as connected.

After arround 5 minutes the LinkStation switched off automatically.

 

May booting into emergency mode by pressing the reset knob while powering on the LS be a suitable workarround?

 

Or what is your proposal?

 

Thanks for your kind support

Pivo

Message Edited by Pivo on 10-13-2008 04:12 PM

[Paul]

As a reminder that changing the hard drive will void any and all warranty, however I would make sure that the hard drive is in a Fat 32 file format before putting it into the LinkStation.

[Pivo]

   

Hi Paul,

 

Warranty issue is one thing (in Europe the valid law is different to the States' one).

 

There is a possible but not very convenient solution:

- Connecting the original disk to a computer with a disk imager (e.g. True Image) installed

- Copying the first three images to the PC

- Connecting the new hard disk to the PC

- Copying the stored images to the new hard disk

- Creating the fourth necessary partition (data partition) manually as an logical Ext3 partition

- Put the new hard disk to the LinkStation

- Start the LinkStation (all cutsomizations are kept)

- Format the data partition to get the XFS file format

 

Kind regards

Pivo

Message Edited by Pivo on 10-19-2008 07:37 PM

[jocafi]

   

Hi Pivo,

Hi Paul,

 

I want to do the same with the LinkStation HS-DH320GL and upgrade the HDD to 1TB

 

I am able to clone the original partitions of the original HD. Are you sure it will work ? I am jut writing to be sure... :-)

 

Thanks!

 

Jocafi

[Pivo]

   

Hi Jocafi,

 

It should work - try it, you can't loose anynthing.

 

You will find two partitions on the original disk.

The first (small) one contains the firmware and must be restored to the new disk with it's original size.

The second (big) one is the data partition which must be resized to use the complete space of the new disk.

 

In the meantime I figured out another suitable workarround:

- Assemble the new disk

- Boot into EM-Mode

- Restore the complete downloaded firmware incl. an LL-formatting

 

A very good FAQ to use the EM-Mode was written by Dustrega:

Part 1: http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-1-of-3-EM-Mode-boot-procedures-please-read-this/m-p/11008#M9306" rel="nofollow">http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-1-of-3-EM-Mode-boot-procedures-please-read-this/m-p/11008#M9306

Part 2: http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-2-of-3-Force-Firmware-update-procedure-please-read-this/m-p/11011#M9309" rel="nofollow">http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-2-of-3-Force-Firmware-update-procedure-please-read-this/m-p/11011#M9309

Part 3: http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-3-of-3-TFTP-boot-procedure-please-read-this/m-p/11015#M9312" rel="nofollow">http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-3-of-3-TFTP-boot-procedure-please-read-this/m-p/11015#M9312

 

Have Fun!

Joerg