Upgrade H340 to 60 or 80gb hard drive

[raypan]

Does anyone know a source for a larger capacity hard drive for a H340 and are there how to manuals available?

[Febs]

Please take a look at this comprehensive FAQ: http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=9308

[Mike]

And perhaps try a search here using the search button above.

[DJDaveX]

Yah, you can.

In fact, I'm about to do it, using an MK6006GAH drive, but any drive ending in MKxx06, MKxx04, MKxx07 work with the H3xx series.

It's a simple upgrade really.
Just open up your iRiver, get the battery and blue padding and bottom metal brace outta the way, remove old HDD and insert new one, format it and Ta - Da, your done. Make sure you backup your old files by the way, to move it onto your new HDD.

[Agincourt]

The hardest bit is finding someone who can supply the 80Gb HDD. Anyone succeeded yet?

[Sharkd0g]

Is it safe to say that if when you put the new HDD in and it will not format and reads 0 megs that it is dead?

[saints]

Originally Posted by Sharkd0g

Is it safe to say that if when you put the new HDD in and it will not format and reads 0 megs that it is dead?

Try swissknife and format with fat32

[pattondogg]

Originally Posted by saints

Try swissknife and format with fat32

Also, please make sure that you set up your partition as a primary partition.
Sorry if this seems obvious, but some people have had problems because they did not know this.

[Sharkd0g]

Thanks for the advice! It's up and running now!

[.Ix]

so i saw someone who sells 80gb double platter ZIF drives + IDE converter combos. oretty damn cheap, too. i'm pretty sure this will fit in the H340, there's just a little modding to be done. (probably cutting some parts off the rubber thing.)

the problem is that they're apple drives. it also says 0 megs and can't format. you guys think swissknife will solve that problem?

edit:

how do i even get Swissknife to format it? will it read the drive if i connected my H3XX with the apple drive in it?

[hvcn]

Try the link below and look for:

Toshiba 60GB MK6006GAH 8.0mm 1.8inch 4200rpm 2MB Notebook Hard Drive - MK6006GAH

http://www.memorylabs.net/hadrlahdd1no.html

Modification is pretty straight forward - look for threads here.

Good luck.

[kyletimmins]

Originally Posted by hvcn

Try the link below and look for:

Toshiba 60GB MK6006GAH 8.0mm 1.8inch 4200rpm 2MB Notebook Hard Drive - MK6006GAH

http://www.memorylabs.net/hadrlahdd1no.html

Modification is pretty straight forward - look for threads here.

Good luck.

man, at that price, you could just buy an old broken ipod photo, with a good HD. probably pay $60 for it.

[_tj_blast_]

I bought a faulty 60Gb photo ipod from ebay at around £45 and used the hard drive, all i had to do was format and partition it using swiss knife utility, easy as pie! I now have a h340 with a 60Gb hard drive and a 2200mah battery, its what dreams are made of!

[.Ix]

how do you format it using swissknife?
i'm guessing you put the apple drive in the H3xx, then plugged it into the USB drive, then formatted it? cause i heard someone had to get a USB enclosure or soemthing, but i'm not sure if his H3xx usb connection was foobard.

[juanpa74]

I am searching on eBay for faulty 60gb Ipods and they say this is the message on screen..but I don't know if I can discard the HD is damaged. How could I know?
Thanks.

[rudycolman]

any word on sibgle platter 40 gigs?

[Joust]

will the MXxx09 drives work?
It uses a ZIF connector so we would have to use an adapter. Or hand wire it in. I assume that the basic functionality will be the same though.