MK8007GAH into h340

[linglicker]

Hey sorry guys my iriver gave me the old check hdd message today which is guttering considering i have owned it for 5 years and gave it hell the whole time.

Anyway i wanna put the mk8007gah in it and i have been looking around for ages for a thread on installs and have been unable to find original threads. The only things i can find are links to them but they dont work.

Could someone please point me in the right direction im going to buy a new hard drive today.

[shadesbass]

The guide on replacing the hard drive in H3xx players is in the FAQ - here

There are also some useful posts at the end of that thread relating to hard drive information.

Good luck with finding an 8007GAH. They're notoriously difficult to get hold of.

[linglicker]

Thanks alot. I rang toshiba NZ today they are seeing what they can do.

must have missed that thread in the faqs. Seems sweet that theres no modification heres hoping i can get hold of one!

[Danfried]

How much space do you actually need? I've lost touch with prices elsewhere, but here in China, the 80 gig MK8007GAH costs almost three times as much as the 60 gig MK6006GAH! Both will work in an H340.

[linglicker]

i would say 60g would do. I have just had a reply from the toshiba people and they tell me that there are 3 options for replacement hdd and they range in price from approx 300 to approx 500 dollars all 80 gig.... I will ring them because they are not named by the usual way to find out if they are actually suitable for me.

Since installing is a peice of cake what do you need to do afterwards?

[Danfried]

Originally Posted by linglicker

i would say 60g would do. I have just had a reply from the toshiba people and they tell me that there are 3 options for replacement hdd and they range in price from approx 300 to approx 500 dollars all 80 gig.... I will ring them because they are not named by the usual way to find out if they are actually suitable for me.

Since installing is a peice of cake what do you need to do afterwards?

You have to make sure the hard drive you order is compatible with your H340 -- newer ones have different connectors, like ZIF, that will NOT work in you H340. You need a drive with an ATA-6 interface, and I think 40 pins (or is it 50?). Remember, NOT ZIF.

So far the only 80 gig Toshiba model that is known for sure to work is the MK8007GAH, and the only 60 gig model is the MK6006GAH.

However, Toshiba has announced some new models with ATA-7 that MIGHT work, but no one here has had experience with yet, like the 120 GB MK1214GAH. Probably the easiest thing is to ask them if the drives they are suggesting can be connected to older ipods, like the 4th Generation or older. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Gen ipods use the same connector as the H300 line. Note though that you don't want a drive that has been pre-formatted for ipods, or you will need to repartition it yourself -- the Toshiba drives that Apple uses have a hidden partition put on them that can mess things up with the H300 series.

For an H340, you want the thicker double-platter drives mentioned above. You could do us a big favour here at Misticriver by also asking them about whether the new single-platter drives will work in the H320 (again, you'll probably have to ask if they will work in old ipods). The new single-platter drives I think might work are the 60GB MK6028GAL and the 80GB MK8025GAL.

Anyway, once you get your drive, you'll need to format it with FAT32, since the H340 won't work with an NTFS partition. You'll need to use special software like Swissknife, since Windows won't let you format a FAT32 drive bigger than 32 GB.

EDIT: It looks like the new drives come with something called a LIF connector (Low Insertion Force?). It might be incompatible like the ZIF connector. Best to ask them.

[linglicker]

Thanks for that advice. They said bring it into them and show them but it sounds like it should be sweet because he said that it was not zif but the other one he reffered to it as parrallel and said that they work for ipods and that they work for gigabeats. Anyway when i am able to find the 300 odd nz dollars for one i will let you all know how it goes.

[linglicker]

Today i brought my 60g hdd for my h340.

It was pretty pricey nearly 500 nz dollars but i decided to do it anyway almost could have got a ipod touch for that but really wanted to stay with iriver because its way better

Anyway i was stressing out about how to format it and would it work blah blah had a moment of sketch when it was turning on and off without me telling it too but tis was only due to slightly gammy battery wires. Next sketch was that windows couldnt see it but got past that with disk managment.

Because as others have said windows wont let you format over 32g in fat32 i used swissknife as others have suggested.

Next sketch was what do i do with this but no ones posts told me what exactly to do probably because as i found all you have to do is rename your drive to whatever you want and then press format! very easy!!!

Now i have a fully functional h360 and i am very happy as it was quite an expensive gamble.

Long live iriver

hope this post helps other people in doing what i have done.

yeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[lugnuttz85]

When people speak of reformatting the drive, I am a bit unclear how how exactly its done. Is it done through the USB connection while its installed in the H3XX? Or is the formatting done with some sort of adapter for the bare drive and hooked up directly to a PC? Can someone clarify this for me before I shell out the cash for a drive?

Thanks in advance

[Rocinante69]

You can format via USB - you CAN also do it the other way but it's not necessary. You can use Windows (for smaller drives) or a program called Swissknife (search around the site & you'll find plenty of info about it - free download, doesn't like Windows Vista). Make sure you use FAT32 when you format!!!