Hard Drive Question

[OneFunGenesis]

So was that located directly behind the head unit? And as mentioned above...did you clone the drives?

 

[consilius]

Located in front of the head unit. No need to remove the unit itself.
It will need to be a physical clone as windows can not read the drive.

 

[OneFunGenesis]

oh I see where it is now! Its right behind the trim panel yea? And a disk cloner should be able to do it, right?

 

[consilius]

Yes, as long as it's a physical cloner. It should be fine. All partitions need to be cloned as well. There are 4 partitions in total. 2 small ones (around 1.5GB) and 2 bigger ones (around 15GB).

 

[veed]

windows can't read? and 4 partitions? boot swap usr and ... data? sounds like a linux box. now i'm curious.

 

[consilius]

It will show as 4 partitions and Windows can not tell what type format the drive is in. You can not actually access the drive from Windows (Attempted on Windows 8.1). Haven't tried Mac yet.

 

[OneFunGenesis]

Lmk if you can read them on mac. I have win 7 8.1 and OSx. The only thing I dont have is a linux box...which is what this does sounds like. So for $150 and some time, I can get a quicker infotainment setup??

 

[consilius]

No. With the hard drive removed, the infotainment works just fine.

The hard drive is for navigation ONLY.

My theory is that due to the much lower random access times of an SSD, the initial startup of the navigation should be reduced as well as load the maps faster on the infotainment (smoother navigation).

Infotainment should remain at the same speed.

 

[StarPower]

Linux has support for more filesystems than Windows or Mac. Also, there's a good chance the infotainment system is Android or Linux based (2nd gens are based off of Android, but I don't know about 1st gens), so Linux would be your best bet to read the drive. If you don't have Linux at home, you could download a distro (free) and boot from a CD or thumb drive. This would allow you to read the drive without installing Linux on your computer.

 

[OneFunGenesis]

No. With the hard drive removed, the infotainment works just fine.

The hard drive is for navigation ONLY.

My theory is that due to the much lower random access times of an SSD, the initial startup of the navigation should be reduced as well as load the maps faster on the infotainment (smoother navigation).

Infotainment should remain at the same speed.

Well that sucks. Because the navigation is the only thing I think works at the proper speed. The rest of the system is turtle slow.

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[consilius]

Windows 8.1

Devices Properties

Mac OS X Yosemite

 

[consilius]

Linux has support for more filesystems than Windows or Mac. Also, there's a good chance the infotainment system is Android or Linux based (2nd gens are based off of Android, but I don't know about 1st gens), so Linux would be your best bet to read the drive. If you don't have Linux at home, you could download a distro (free) and boot from a CD or thumb drive. This would allow you to read the drive without installing Linux on your computer.

Android is based on Linux..

It definitely is not Android (Initial Release: Sep. '08)

Genesis OS Built Date: Dec, '06

 

[OneFunGenesis]

We know it is not built on Android but it could definitely be a Linux kernal or shell that Windows can't read

 

[GenesisCaptain]

Install an Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 driver on your Windows computer and see what happens. I bet it reads it.

 

[TheDr9669]

Was there any forward progress on this? Is this a Linux partition/file system? Also, did the sata/pata adapter work? I think that replacing the HDD with an SSD before it fails would ensure no long term issues arise.