2060 HDD Replacement

[mrwho]

We're having trouble replacing a supposedly damaged HD from a 2060.

We first tried with a used PC 40Gb HD I had around the house. I thought it was in good condition, but in the end it appears that it isn't.

Now all we have is a 120Gb HD. Will it work if my colleague sticks it in and format it? Is there any particular position the jumpers should be at? And should the HD go in completely blank or does the machine erase everything automatically?

Thanks.

[TonerMunkeh]

In my experience iwth the Martini it has to be a completely brand new 40-80GB drive. I haven't tried fitting a bigger one as 80 is the biggest I carry on my car stock. All you should need to do is put the new drive in, format it, then you download the stamp data to it. Done!

[tcs04]

We're having trouble replacing a supposedly damaged HD from a 2060.

We first tried with a used PC 40Gb HD I had around the house. I thought it was in good condition, but in the end it appears that it isn't.

Now all we have is a 120Gb HD. Will it work if my colleague sticks it in and format it? Is there any particular position the jumpers should be at? And should the HD go in completely blank or does the machine erase everything automatically?

Thanks.

Make sure the jumpers on the drive are set to "Master" as per the label on the drive. By default they come as "Cable select" and will not be seen by the machine. We use different size drives and I've not heard of problems.

[mrwho]

Thank you all for your replies.

My colleague managed to replace it with a 160Gb drive.

Reps to all that helped!

[kayjaig]

Did you learned from him

Glad you had it fixed. Do you know how your collegue did it? and share with us if you could.

[mrwho]

As far as I know, he just picked up a regular off-the-shelf 160Gb HDD completely clean (no partitions), put it into the machine and formated it via service mode (I don't know the SP now, but it's in the service manual).