11. How To Void Your Warranty & Upgrade Your DMP-HD610, Continued

Next, jumper the hard drive that you have removed from the DMP-HD610 as the master, and your new drive as the slave. Once this is done, you should take the drives and plug them into the primary hard drive controller.

After powering the system on, you might have to modify the BIOS setting in your computer so that the BIOS can see both hard drives.

Now, boot from the diskette that you have created with the drive imaging software on it.

Follow the process described in the manual of your imaging software for a drive-to-drive copy. Make sure that you use the option that expands the size of the target drive's partition to take advantage of the additional storage space of your new drive. The copying process should now take only a few minutes to complete.

Once the copy process is complete, you can then install the new drive into your DMP-HD610 (make sure that the new drive jumper settings are correct), and enjoy the new, expanded space of your drive by downloading additional MP3 files to it via the USB cable.

Since the DMP-HD610 uses the FAT 32 file system, it is very easy to upgrade the unit to add additional space. We think that this is one of the best features of the DMP-HD610, and it adds additional value to the unit by allowing the user a storage upgrade path.

Here is a picture with the new IBM 20 GB hard drive installed into the DMP-HD610. The process of upgrading the drive is very straightforward and we didn't have to reload all of our MP3 files back on to the hard drive via the USB interface, which saved a lot of time.