Hard Drive Upgrade gone awry... Help!

[kramerica]

I recently ordered a 60GB Toshiba Dual Platter drive for my beloved H140 after dropping the player and damaging the 40 GB HD. The player was not damaged, only the Hard Drive, AFAIK. The player continued to work afterward, only problem was the HD was loud and file transfers became slow as hell.

Anyway, I opened my player to put the new Hard Drive in and found it a bit of a tight squeeze. I eventually had to cut out some of the blue rubber padding the get the drive to lie flat. So I reassebled the unit and to my surprise.... nothing.

Any button I press lights up the display but no matter what I do, the HD will not spin up, and no text of any sort will show up on the screen. Now, i figured it was a HD thing, but I put my old HD(40GB) back in and I got the same result.

Now, I have no enclosure that I can pop the drive into in order to test it, but with both of my drives acting the same way, I'm inclined to think the issue is with the player. (if necessary, I could open up my brother's H320 to test it/format etc... but that would be if all else failed)

Any idea if there is a simple fix to this, or is my H140 toast?

[colo]

It might be the same problem that is known concerning replacing the H320 HDD with a 60GB-HDD: You might have to avoid any contact between the hdd and the remaining parts of the H100 by adding some tape onto the hdd so it won't touch the surface of the "mainboard".

[infection0]

oh god if he caused a short then it's good game

i once had a computer hard drive. touched it to metal while running. it smoked for a little bit and i cried.

[Dunno]

Originally Posted by kramerica

I recently ordered a 60GB Toshiba Dual Platter drive for my beloved H140 after dropping the player and damaging the 40 GB HD. The player was not damaged, only the Hard Drive, AFAIK. The player continued to work afterward, only problem was the HD was loud and file transfers became slow as hell.

Anyway, I opened my player to put the new Hard Drive in and found it a bit of a tight squeeze. I eventually had to cut out some of the blue rubber padding the get the drive to lie flat. So I reassebled the unit and to my surprise.... nothing.

Any button I press lights up the display but no matter what I do, the HD will not spin up, and no text of any sort will show up on the screen. Now, i figured it was a HD thing, but I put my old HD(40GB) back in and I got the same result.

Now, I have no enclosure that I can pop the drive into in order to test it, but with both of my drives acting the same way, I'm inclined to think the issue is with the player. (if necessary, I could open up my brother's H320 to test it/format etc... but that would be if all else failed)

Any idea if there is a simple fix to this, or is my H140 toast?

did you format the disk with swissknife

[DJDaveX]

Originally Posted by Dunno

did you format the disk with swissknife

^^That^^ and also did you load the firmware???

[Mike]

Guys--this is a long dead thread. But thanks for your suggestions!