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JLD
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Bose HDD Replacement/Repair Reply with quote
My drive is dead and squills like a rat on power up/down. Would you be willing to ISO the image so I could burn it to a new drive?



DC wrote:
Hi everybody,

I’m bringing good news to all you guys who suffered with failed BOSE HDD. Further to my post dated 16 August 2011, I managed to make BOSE to recognize and play my WD 160 GB disk!
So, what did I do in the meantime, after 16 August?

- Sent an e-mail to BOSE technical support, which they did not bother to respond.
- Called BOSE service, and BOSE technician told me that the file system is “secret” and that simply copy-paste to new HDD will not work. Nonsense – read further...
- yesterday I went to BOSE service and bought BOSE HDD. It is actually TOSHIBA 40 GB hard drive, almost the same as the one which failed. Here are the details of the failed HDD:
TOSHIBA MK4025GAS HDD 2190 T ZE01 T DC +5V 0.7A

Here are the details of the new drive I bought yesterday:
TOSHIBA MK4032GAX HDD 2010 T ZL01 T DC +5V 1.0A
- I connected the new BOSE HDD to media center and, as expected, everything was Ok, and error messages 801 and 802 are gone.
- Then I disconnected the new drive from media center and connected to my laptop to examine the drive. And here is the “secret”:
Hard disk was formatted with FAT32 and is having TWO PARTITIONS! Here are the partitions details:
Partition 1:
Total bytes: 31,412,312,064 (29GB)
Total sectors: 61,352,172

Partition 2:
Total bytes: 8,595,417,600 (8GB)
Total sectors: 16,787,925

So, knowing this, I connected my 160GB WD 2.5’’ internal HDD (which I purchased for 1/5 of the price of BOSE HDD!) to my laptop and again using Control Panel – Administrative tools – Computer management- Disk management, first I deleted the existing volume on my WD drive, then I created 2 new volumes – for the size of the first volume I entered 29958 MB, and for the second volume 8197 MB. Then I made the first volume ACTIVE. Note that still more than 120GB of my WD drive remained unallocated, since I utilized only 38155 MB (29958+8197).

Then I copied all three folders (DATA, db and MUSIC), which I managed to save before the old BOSE HDD died, back to the first partition (29958 MB). The second partition (8197MB) remains empty.
Just to avoid any potential surprises from BOSE, actual copying I did from command prompt using ROBOCOPY function, which retains the complete time and date stamps of the original files. The syntax was
ROBOCOPY c: h: /s /copy:dat
Where c: was the source drive, h: was the destination drive, /s parameter will copy subfolders and /copy:dat will retain time and date stamps.

Then connected this WD drive to media center and SUCCESS! BOSE is playing all my stored music!
Unfortunately I had to buy new BOSE HDD (which I don’t need now) to discover this. But does not matter.

So you guys, can go to the first computer shop and buy any 2.5’’ internal HDD for 20% of the price you would pay to BOSE. Just take care on the following: my WD, despite it was looking identical to TOSHIBA HDD, was not quite identical. One corner on WD drive was 1mm higher than on TOSHIBA drive – just enough that cover of medial center cannot close properly. But with the help of rasp tool I chamfered the WD drive corner and now fits nicely in media center!

And, for the end, the new BOSE HDD I purchased was having only one folder in the first partition called DATA with only 6 files in it. I presume the other two folders db and MUSIC get created at the moment you press the STORE button to capture your music CD.

Best regards,

DC



execudine1 wrote:
Hey Guys,

I had already tried and waited to try and get the exact drive, format it, etc. Too much drama. I finally called Bose. $149 + shipping and within 6 days round-trip, I had my Lifestyle 48 back in business. It was much quieter and it looks like they did a lot more than replace the drive. My casing was immaculate, it sounds like they may have replaced the DVD drive or tuned it. It is much quieter now. The HDD I noticed when going through the console is not a Toshiba, but a Fujitsu now. Hmmm. Maybe that helps? They upgraded all the firmware/software and shipped it back to me in a nice box well packed with the latest uMusic DVD install.

The only thing I lost was my music, but I probably needed to rearrange and add things differently anyways. Plus, my system has a 1-Year Warranty now from the date of this. Not bad. I work in the technology field and most people don't get that kind of service for that price for equipment that pricey.

Yes, I know, frustrating that I had to send it off in the first place, but I will say in the long haul well worth it for everything they took care of.

Just send it in and save yourself the headache. I'm a techy guy, but Bose has all the software proprietary so it's hard to mod anything.

1-800-WWW-Bose. Just have your console serial ready and a credit card ready.

Drew
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DMC
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:49 pm    Post subject: Re: Bose HDD Replacement/Repair Reply with quote
JLD,

Contact me by e-mail dcurcic@gmail.com and I will send the files directly to you.

Regards,

DMC

[quote="JLD"]My drive is dead and squills like a rat on power up/down. Would you be willing to ISO the image so I could burn it to a new drive?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
OK, so I grabbed a drive from insightcomputer (even though they advertise it with the Bose part number it's a blank, unformatted drive). I partitioned it per the instructions above, and now on bootup I have an 802 error (the old drive was completely frozen, 801 and 802 errors, no activity at all in an external dock).

Having put the new drive in I notice that the unit itself created 6 files in the data directory, not sure what they are (settings?). It won't store a CD (constantly scrolls 'accessing gracenote database') and won't take a software update cd (it says the music db is ok, even though there isn't a database on the drive at all).

Anyone actually gotten installing a 3rd party drive to fully work including the database and storing music? Can the files from an update CD be directly copied to the 'new' drive in a dock? Any way to force the unit to process the update CD regardless of the current software on the system and build a new database? Does anyone have a 'base' image from a drive including a CDDB without any stored music? Is that what the 2nd partition is used for?

Hints/tips would be appreciated,
Thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:21 am    Post subject: Formatting new drive Reply with quote
Hi DC - did you format the second partition of 8197MB or leave it RAW?

I've contacted the sevice agents again and they have refused to send me a new disk for me to install. They're insisting I send the head unit and make no promises about copying the music I have saved to a 'clone' to a new bose disk. I am determined to exhaust all possibilities before handing over my hard earned cash to these stealers.....
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jafromwi
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:17 am    Post subject: anyone have the files still Reply with quote
I am looking for the files if anyone has them email is wiinstantrepair@gmail
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jafromwi
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:51 am    Post subject: WORKING SOLUTION Reply with quote
Everything that was said to do by dc works except for his files. I got the full files and they included a database that is needed to store and play music. I have everything on a DVD. Files are over 1GB.
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B50
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:58 am    Post subject: Bose AV48 HDD initiation files Reply with quote
Hi DC,
Please email me those 6 files to initiate HDD for Bose LS 48 at bpham5@yahoo.com. Thanks you very much.
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B50
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:02 am    Post subject: Re: WORKING SOLUTION Reply with quote
jafromwi wrote:
Everything that was said to do by dc works except for his files. I got the full files and they included a database that is needed to store and play music. I have everything on a DVD. Files are over 1GB.


Hi jafromwi
Is there a way that you can send me those files for Bose HDD initiation? Really appreciate.
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LUXmen
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:40 pm    Post subject: Re: WORKING SOLUTION Reply with quote
[quote="jafromwi"]Everything that was said to do by dc works except for his files. I got the full files and they included a database that is needed to store and play music. I have everything on a DVD. Files are over 1GB.[/quote]

Hello,
Please send me your email on danimarc at pt.lu so I'll contact you for uploading me the Bosefiles!!
Thank you in advanced!!

Best regards

Marc
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Soong
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:14 pm    Post subject: help. need link for image file Reply with quote
Thanx guys!! This thread has been really helpful.
I am currently in South Korea and i went to Bose Service Center in Seoul where they told me to pay over $250 dollars for hdd replacement. I told them NO im not paying that much for some outdated IDE 40g drive.

I bought a used Hitachi 40g HDD IDE-E for around 20 bucks,
and I'm currently looking for the IMAGE FILE.

plz help me. where can i download the image file?? i've been looking all over the internet: google, pirate bay, isohunt, etc. Still no luck in finding the file.

can someone plz give me a link?

chosbboy@naver.com
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