Replacing Life... DeadDrive HardDisk

[Donald H Brown]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding a description/information about replacing a 'dead' hard drive in my LifeDrive. About 18 months of (light) use came to an end on Sunday morning when an unexpected bump took the Life (and Drive) out of my PDA... I guess it's more of a DeadStop now.

The case screws - Are they T4, 5 or 6 Torq heads?

I'd appreciate any help you could offer.

All the best

Donald

[jcsheng505]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding a description/information about replacing a 'dead' hard drive in my LifeDrive. About 18 months of (light) use came to an end on Sunday morning when an unexpected bump took the Life (and Drive) out of my PDA... I guess it's more of a DeadStop now.

The case screws - Are they T4, 5 or 6 Torq heads?

I'd appreciate any help you could offer.

All the best

Donald

Hi Donald

Reading the this forum here helped me a lot.

http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111497

and also this Wikihowto

http://howto.wikia.com/wiki/Howto_replace_microdrive_with_compactflash_in_LifeDrive

[Joel]

Welcome to 1SRC, Daniel H Brown.

I agree with jcsheng505, those two links are the best resource. I have yet to replace my drive... just waiting for the 4GB CFs prices to go down a bit more ;)

[jcsheng505]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding a description/information about replacing a 'dead' hard drive in my LifeDrive. About 18 months of (light) use came to an end on Sunday morning when an unexpected bump took the Life (and Drive) out of my PDA... I guess it's more of a DeadStop now.

The case screws - Are they T4, 5 or 6 Torq heads?

I'd appreciate any help you could offer.

All the best

Donald

Hi Donald

I actually used a small 5/65 flathead screw driver.

:)

[brandon-wan]

i used a t5 torx driver for all the screws when i replaced the battery. the 4 gb cf had been ordered. wish me luck!

[Donald H Brown]

Joel, I see what you mean about the price - I checked out the Kingston 4GB Elite Pro 45x on Ebay - over 50 quid!!! I think I'll try to to do the CF conversion as per the links supplied by jcsheng505. I don't have that much experience with linux and configuring/formatting drives/CFcards but it looks do'able. Once I get all the gear together, I'll write to let you know how it goes!!!

[Donald H Brown]

Brandon-wan, Good luck, please do let me/us know how the conversion goes. I'll be making plans for conversion to do it next weekend.

Donald

[philpalm]

As far as I can tell you have to be like Dr Frankinstein and resurrect the dead hard drive. I thought most folks did the HDD transfer before their Life drive died.....

[peterjb31]

If you are looking for simplified instructions for the CF conversion using linux try the most recent entry on this blog:

http://peterandlinux.blogspot.com

[makraw]

Hello,

I am unlucky guy with dead LD (hard drive broken). I decided to bring it to live using LD2.0 update method. The problem is I am not linux guy. I managed to get Zenwalk Installed and get unshield, subversion in place. Now I ma waiting to get CF card and get those files partictitions flashed. I decided to get Sandisk Exterme III - is it kosher?

Peter: Thanks for instruction! UR great!