14. Preparing The New Hard Drive

Now you need to hook-up the little IDE-drive to your (turned-off) computer using the adapter. I suggest you use the secondary IDE-channel, so that you don't need to change the drive to slave mode. Fire up your computer and make sure that the drive is found by your BIOS. Now boot into Windows. You won't be able to access the drive, because it is not partitioned or formatted with any known file system. Even Linux cannot recognize it.

What you now need is a Hex/Disk Editor software. I used WinHex from . You can use any other disk editor you fancy. What you need to do is to copy the first 65,536 sectors of the Jukebox drive to an image-file on your computer. In Winhex you need to use the 'Tools/Disk Accessories' menu item 'Clone Disk'. Choose the Jukebox drive as your source drive and an image file as your destination. 65536 sectors need a space of 32 MB, so you've got to make sure that you've got 32 MB of free space on your system's hard drive. To do this operation with Winhex you will need to register it. Now copy starting from sector 0 the amount of 65536 sectors to the image file you chose.

That's it. Shut down your system and remove the original Jukebox drive. Replace it with the new drive you picked for your Jukebox.

Start your system again and run Winhex. Now you only need to copy the image file to the new hard drive. Choose the image file as your source and the new hard drive as your destination.

Copying the 32 MB will only take a few seconds. This is all you need to do. Shut down your system, remove the new hard drive and slide it into the connector of the Jukebox player. Fix the drive with the four screws, without forgetting to put the four distance holders back in place. Now you put the PCB back into the bottom half of the housing, attach the cover of the 'LOCK'-switch, making sure that the little notch of the cover fits over the mini-switch. Put the top half of the housing back on, fix the five screws and put the two rubber pads back where they were, possibly with the help of a bit of glue. Voila, the operation is finished.

Formatting The New Drive

Firmware prior to version 2.56

First make sure that the player is connected to the AC Power supply, but disconnect it from the USB cable. Turn the player off. With the player off, we need to turn the player on. As soon as you see the words "Loading" in the top left corner of the screen, press and hold down on both the Play and Stop buttons at the same time. Continue holding both buttons until the player displays the request for format. At that point you can release the buttons. If you press YES, it will ask you if you are sure. Pressing YES a second time will format the player. Then turn the player off and reattach the USB cable.

Firmware version 2.56 and later

First make sure that the player is connected to the AC Power supply, but disconnect it from the USB cable. Turn the player off. With the player off, we need to turn the player on. As soon as you see the words "Loading" in the top left corner of the screen, press and hold down on the EAX button, the Down Arrow and the center display button at the same time. Continue holding all three buttons until the player displays the disk diag menu. At that point you can release the buttons. If you select format, it will format the player. Then turn the player off and reattach the USB cable.

Preparing Library

Kuren had already pointed it out and it is something that might irritate you a bit too, although it is totally harmless. Once your upgraded Jukebox-player is completely full with music, the 'preparing library'-procedure when you start the Jukebox will take a lot longer than with the 6 GB hard drive.

This is no error, but simply a sign for the fact that it takes longer to create the library database of the Jukebox from those many music files. The more files you have the longer it takes. In my case I have to wait 1 minute and 40 seconds until all the 12 GB of MP3-files are organized in the library. If you should use a 20 GB disk and fill it up it could easily take 3 to 4 minutes until your Jukebox has finished booting.