How to upgrade to a bigger HDD?? - Blu-ray Forum

RealSkyDiver · 12-10-2008, 04:06 AM

Everywhere it states that you only need to swap the HDD and that's it, but that's no true!
After I swapped the HDD it can't run the software correctly and I need to use a storage media with update 2.53 on it. Is that normal??

katharsis · 12-10-2008, 04:27 AM

What kind of drive did you put in there?
There is only a bunch of "recommended" ones out there, so if you bought one of those its a real easy swap with no problems.
However if you used a different drive, I am not sure what kind of issues it might give you.

What does it or does it not do ?

What do you mean you need to use storage media ?

The updates are not stored on the harddrive itself, they update the firmware which is mostlikely the chip on the mainboard.

RealSkyDiver · 12-10-2008, 04:48 AM

Never mind. I thought I didn't have a storage device that big but then I remembered that my phone can be used as an external flash drive so I used that and now it works.

12-10-2008, 04:06 AM	#1
RealSkyDiver Active Member Member since:Nov 2008	How to upgrade to a bigger HDD?? Everywhere it states that you only need to swap the HDD and that's it, but that's no true! After I swapped the HDD it can't run the software correctly and I need to use a storage media with update 2.53 on it. Is that normal??

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12-10-2008, 04:27 AM	#2
katharsis Power Member Member since:Aug 2007 Location:SoCal Home Theater Gallery:16 Blu-ray collection:379 Blu-ray reviews:3 Trading Score:8	What kind of drive did you put in there? There is only a bunch of "recommended" ones out there, so if you bought one of those its a real easy swap with no problems. However if you used a different drive, I am not sure what kind of issues it might give you. What does it or does it not do ? What do you mean you need to use storage media ? The updates are not stored on the harddrive itself, they update the firmware which is mostlikely the chip on the mainboard.

12-10-2008, 04:48 AM	#3
RealSkyDiver Active Member Member since:Nov 2008	Never mind. I thought I didn't have a storage device that big but then I remembered that my phone can be used as an external flash drive so I used that and now it works.

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