mx 7000

[bonnie750]

hello

I've got a E7-03 code on a mx7000. hard drive won't spin up atall. the drive is an 80gb 3 1/2 ide drive. smallest drive i can obtain is 160gb.

anyone used a different size drive to the original?

thanks

Bill

[OMD-227]

Sharp Australia always has the 40Gb & 80Gb IDE HDD for the first series MX machines as a part number, so I've never tried to install a different size as yet in any MX.

One thing I do know, is that the MX machines will partition the drive into its required format upon first install of the new drive. As it is a new drive, it is already formatted & blank. It sets up the partition needed for Document Filing space and User code space etc etc. I have the documentation on this somewhere... I'll look it up.
Therefore, I'd presume if you install a larger HDD, the machine would most likely still partition it as an 80Gb drive, leaving the remaining HDD space unpartitioned.

I know you said the original HDD is dead, but I've had similar cases where I could still do a device clone of the HDD, therefore saving the user codes & scan addresses. Try it if possible.

I've never done a different size HDD yet, but always wondered what would happen. Please let us know the outcome.

[bonnie750]

hello Wazza

thanks for that, I'll give you an update asap

bill

[bonnie750]

I installed a 160 gb ide hard drive.

m/c called u2-05 code which i cleared with sim16.
machine came to ready without issues.

[ZOOTECH]

Thanks bonnie750 (nice bike by the way), that info will come in handy someday.

[OMD-227]

Great job!

Did you install the device clone onto the larger HDD? Any problems with scan to HDD or using the document filing function?

No other problems than the usual U2-05, caused by a new unknown HDD?

[bonnie750]

Hello Wazza

no problems with install, cloning worked,scanning had a problem with authentication; I had to input the user name and password.......one of those where it just seems too easy!!!!

Bill