H10 hangs on bootloader after upgrade to 60g

[grymm]

Hi,

Saw your post about upgrading your H10 with the Hitachi 60gb drive.

How exactly did you do it? I purchased one and the internal HDD cable the H10 has is too thick for the 60 GB drive I purchased.  Did you have to force the cable in?? Because the original 20 GB drive has the flap up top to slip the HDD cable into it. This HTC426060G8CE00-60GB 4200RPM ATA 1.8" SLIM HD  has the Zif connection but a much smaller mechanism up top and smaller prongs to hold the HDD cable. I have the option to return it to the seller (bought it on Ebay) BUT if you were able to fit this and there is a chance it CAN fit, I really want to try. Did you have to trim the cable?? However wouldn't that damage the leads on it?

My ultimate question is this: Are we limited to Hitachi drives for use in the H10 20gb??
Do you think the Toshiba Zif drives: Toshiba MK3008GAL 30GB, MK4008GAH 40GB, MK6008GAH 60GB, etc can be used instead??

Any help is appreciated

[embedit]

The 60gb drive should have a flap also, but it might be a little different (don't remember exactly how it looked).   The only issue I had is that it was a little off center, so I had to trim one of the blue rubber mounts.  I will try to dig up the pictures I took to send or post.

[peterjmag]

Just wanted to bump this to see if you found any of the pictures you took of the process. I'm very interested in upgrading to a 60GB drive, but I want to make sure I actually know what I'm doing (at least vaguely) before I go diving in there.

Also, thanks for all the information you've provided in this thread so far! It's been extremely valuable to my "research."

[joust]

I put a new Toshiba 80gig in my H10. I then loaded rockbox and it works perfectly.
Has this sector thing been fixed? because I did not see this problem at all.

[wiggin0105]

joust, you say you used an 80gig?  think you could post the model you used?  i'd love to have that kind of storage!

[Old Schooler]

Hello,

Thought I'd chime in. This is the model number of an 80gb Toshiba drive I installed in my H10: MK8009GAH.

It was roughly 1mm thicker, but the different thickness was only in the center the edges being thinner. It fit very easily. I did have to trim the rubber thing so the connector could be moved over a little. Also, and this is important, the connector itself calls for a thinner ribbon cable. The existing one has a "backer" on it which I "suppose" could be forced into the Toshiba drive but I very carefully scraped the extra material off of it. It worked very well that way and still can be used on the orig HD if needed, though it will be a little loose.

Also, I had trouble formatting it in the H10 itself. I never did find out why, but I simply installed it in an ext enclosure and loaded everything from the original HD before placing it in the H10. From that point, I can access it as normal and functions perfectly

You might check on the "MisticRiver" forum site for more info as there is a lot there.

I also installed a 2200mah battery with no problems at all. These 2 mods, and of course adding RB, made a really nice player out of it.

Dave

[rastaman01]

Would you be willing to put together a detailed tutorial on how to do it? I'd love to give it a whirl...

[jiuq]

Hello.. i'm interesting in mod my H10 to 60 or 80 GB. Is possible to obtain photos of this modification?

Is possible to use the toshiba hard disk? or exist any incompatibility.

Thank you for your help. 

[karashata]

As long as the drive is only 5mm in thickness and uses a ZIF connector you should be alright. I don't know of any incompaitbilities with certain manufacturers or the like.

[tsester]

 i also bought a 60G , formatted it in FAT32 using a zif to 3.5'' adapter but still no luck :*(( http://paste.ubuntu.com/977797/ )

[tsester]

the zif cable was cut. i added a new one and the 60G plays