Explorer 8000 or 8300 Hard Drive upgrade - Page 8

Did u clone your original internal HD or did you just install a new blank SATA drive in the cable box and it formatted on its own..I own a Rogers SA8300HD box, cloned my 160 GB Maxtor to a WD 500GB drive and my system does not see the extra space ??

Hello Peter M Wilson...I am a Rogers subscriber with my own SA8300HD box and can not get the system to recognize the added space of the WD 500GB I installed...still thinks it is 160GB ???

I've replaced my 160gb drive with a 320gb in October when it started to fail, I got back all my old shows and the added space. What program did you use to clone?

Hello Meteor,

I cloned the 160 MB Maxtor drive using Active@ Disk Image and got my shows etc on the WD500GB drive however I did not get the added 340 GB space.

When I check the space available screen it showed the same space on the new drive as on the old ??

Do you know of a way to expand the partition now that the system has been transferred to the WD drive ??[/i]

try with Easeus : http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Disk...-10867157.html

Burn it and boot with the CD
Is the best disk clone available, I copied all kinds of exotic drive formats and the best part is free!

I've done mine in a laptop using 2 USB to IDE adapters. It took a long time but it worked like a charm.
If it doesn't work it's possible a limitation with a 500gb drive or the software running in your 8300HD doesn't recognize the extra space. Good Luck

I have a Sony DVR. Sorry if this is off topic or anything, but it is really unreliable & constantly unstable. What does everyone think of the `Philips DVDR3576H DVD Recorder with 160GB Hard Disc and Built-In Tuner` (http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DVDR35...dp/B0013WM0BQ/). It's $749... that seems rather steep, unless that's the going rate for a reliable DVR. What about firmware updates? I have no idea how to update the firmware on a DVR... anyone have any experience with this? I'm afraid of messing it up, yet ticked about the high cost of replacing it.

If I do replace it, however, should I go with a Slingbox? I'm hesitant only because the Slingbox comes preloaded with all the HP computers. (Sling Media Slingbox SOLO (SB260-100) (http://www.storecomparison.net/) or Sling Media SlingLink Turbo Powerline Kit ( SL200-100 ) (http://www.amazon.com/Sling-Media-Sl...dp/B000NJ5VLQ/).

Thanks!

That's really clever. That must have taken forever though, like you mentioned...

Looks like there are also reports on other forums that cloning no longer allows the extra space to be used (e.g. here).

Has anyone else tried a cloned disk with the current version of SARA? If it's not going to work I'll save myself the trouble of copying over the old data when I put in a new 500GB.

Okay, I know this is a really old thread, but now I'm having trouble in finding 500 GB PATA drives to exchange my internal drives of my SA 8300HD (I have 3 of them). What is the theoretical max limit of the PATA drive that can be used for this unit?

500GB WD PATA
750GB Seagate PATA
Specific models of either.. check out the 8300HD drive replacements discussions via google..

both are getting very hard to locate for a reasonable price..

YMMV I've read all over the place that sometimes these work, sometimes not, especially with the non-WD options..
Edited by gattaca - 7/31/12 at 8:58am

Thanks to info in this thread and a step-by-step guide on how to replace the drive I have been able to successfully upgrade the hard drive of my 8300HD to a 500GB WD5000AAKB.
I was also able to retain all the settings and shows saved on my old hard drive by cloning the drive using the Linux dd command.