iLO DVDRHD04 Hard Drive Upgrade Guide (Part 1 of 2)

Step 1: Backing Up the Original Drive

  1. Backup all your important recordings from your current 80GB drive to DVD+RW or DVD+R discs.
  2. After you backed up everything, Press "Tools" button on remote and follow on screen instructions to "Erase" your hard drive.

Step 2: Copy iLO Files To Your Computer

  1. Carefully remove your hard drive from the HD04 and hook it up to your computer.
  2. Start up your computer and copy all the files and folders from the LITEONFAT hard drive to a folder on your computer's hard drive. The total files are just under 5GB.
  3. Turn off computer and remove your 80GB drive from your computer.

Step 3: Create Your New "Biggie Sized" Hard Drive's Partition

  1. Set your new hard drive's jumper to Master/Single (It will also work in the CS position, but the orig drive was set to Master/Single)
  2. Hook up your "Biggie" hard drive to your computer and start 'er up.
  3. **11/08/05 UPDATE** I created a new narrated video guide for steps 3 & 4 of this guide...

    Fat32 Format Guide LINK

  4. Right click "My Computer" icon and select "Manage"
  5. Click on "Disk Management" under the "Storage" branch. This will show you all the drives attached to your computer.
  6. You will see a list of Disks in the bottom right panel. Scroll to your new drive and right click on the rectange with the blue bar on top. Select "Delete Partition" if this drive was already formatted. (Not necessary if your drive is new)
  7. Sorry, but I am going from memory from this point.
    Right click your new drive's rectangle w/ blue bar again and select "New Partition". Make it a primary partition at the default size (Which is the largest possible size for your drive)
  8. Assign it an available drive letter and remember what it is. (I will say my drive was set to J)
  9. IMPORTANT STEP... It will ask you how to format the partition next... click on the "Do not format this partition" option.
  10. Right click one more time to mark the partition as active.
  11. Close the Computer Management window.
  12. OK.. good job... you now have created an unformatted partition.

Click to Continue to Step 4: Format Your New Drive with H2FORMAT

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