Can you upgrade the hard drive

[SteelCity]

the what???

if you've got specific questions, hit me up by pm for my AIM/yahoo usernames...

i myself have over 80gb of JUST music because of how i rip my music, which is WMA Mathematically Lossless, which is a very high bitrate...i can hear the difference between that and 256kbit wma's and mp3's, and the difference is enough to drive me up the wall......so high bitrate it is for me

I may go solid state eventually, just for the super fast boot times and protection from bumps....like a 30gb drive for the system, and a 120 for media(to which i'll add more down the road cause my carpc motherboard has 6 sata2 ports)

yeah, i havn't been on much lately, been super super super busy with work...i spend my nights working on the carpc skin i'm working on...ill be updating the my topic about it soon enough. For now until I get my challenger, the carpc is going in my neon....if anyone will be at carlisle for the all chrysler nationals, you can come by the 2gn.org tent and find me and i'll give you a demo of the carpc

[charger250]

Originally Posted by GEN-X Hemi

It is definetlly not plug and play. I know for a fact that you need to clone the hard drive onto a new one. Then resize the 4th partition to fill the rest of the drive. The 4th partition is where the Mygig lets you keep your personal stuff btw. As far as the OS goes my best guess would be something Linux based just because i would think that to be easiest but that is just speculation. My main problem about doing this is I have some knowledge about computer but only windows and to do this I would need to know about what ever OS it is and also how to set up master-slave hard drives, then would have to boot them using some sort of boot cd w/ a program to ghost/clone your hard drive and then resize it all just using the cd, because my guess is that if you were to boot up with the Mygig HDD atached into windows it would mess it all up. So if anyone here has more knowledge with 3rd party OS's or cloning/resizing partitions, I would LOVE if you could help out. Oh and if you are going to try this make sure to buy either a solid state hard drive or an automotive grade hard disc drive. This way it can handle the shock, vibration, and temps of the autmotive world.

With Norton Ghost you can do all this, and it reads some unix formats. The thing is you probably need an older version of ghost because it runs from a boot floppy outside Windows. The new one requires Windows, and when you boot Windows it will open the file system and write stuff on the drive possibly messing it up. I love ghost, but hate the new version.

Thing is, if it cannot read the file system it will just do a byte for byte 0's and one's copy, which also means when you image a 20 gig drive to a 300 gig drive, or a 1 Tb drive, you still have 20 gig. Now, if the partition where the music files reisdes is NFTS or Fat32 (Microsoft file systems), then Ghost can read it and re-size it. The key will be what size drive does it use? 3.5" 2.5", SATA, PATA? It probably is PATA, which are getting hard to find now. PATA is parallel ata, or the older ata 133 stuff.

You got me thinking, now I want to try it, thing is my car hasent arrived yet.

Anyone wants to send me one to try, I got several versions of ghost, and 7 computers.

[2009SE]

The Challenger is turning into an expensive iPod on wheels.....

[charger250]

Any intelligant person knows all powered equipment needs the basic minimum V8 power plant to run things, so it is the natural conclusion to have a HEMI powered Ipod