Posted by rmhartman on 05/19/07 00:27

On May 18, 10:09 am, rmhartman <rmhart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, info for anybody else attempting to replace the hard disk on a
> Panny (DMR-HS2 in my case) the trick is that the drive jumper must be
> in the "MASTER" position. The standard position allows the cable to
> select whether the drive is MASTER or SLAVE (black connector for
> master, grey connector for slave), but the cable in the Panny does not
> do this. After I did that, the Panny firmware detected the drive and
> offered to format it for me.

Ok, the (@#*&$ thing does /not/ have a partition table at all! After
formating the new disk, I put it into a linux system and used fdisk to
display the partition table to find out what kind it was and ... there
was none. In the first 512 bytes on the disk there were a few non-
null characters near the beginning, and the rest was null (the
partition table is supposed to be near the end of the first 512-byte
block on the disk).

Loverly.

Anyway, at least I could get a new disk in, even if I couldn't recover
the data from the old disk....

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