Doing it myself with a new hard drive

Posted Dec 13, 2008 · 19:54 UTC#1

I plan to buy a new MK6034GAX, create the partitions, and install the z3 image. Since it is a brand new drive, I would suspect no unlocking is required.

Since this would be a brand-new hard-drive, is there anything needed to have the avic properly recognize the drive beyond creating the correct partitions? Any other notes for this strategy?

Thanks for all the great info and downloads this site provides

Posted Dec 13, 2008 · 21:51 UTC#2

You will not have to unlock the drive, but you will want to disable the security so that the AVIC does not lock it the first time you boot in up in the Z. You do not need to do anything special other then disable the security and restore the Z3 image.

Posted Dec 20, 2008 · 17:38 UTC#3

which partitions can be made larger, and how much larger can they be made when using a 60gb drive?

Posted Dec 21, 2008 · 17:37 UTC#4

Only increase the Music partition, and you can use all remaining drive space. It will be about 37gb.

Posted Dec 31, 2008 · 23:37 UTC#5

i did the same thing. i upgrade my laptop hardrive and am using the 40GB in the Z..i have installed the image and disabled the security. what do i need to do expand the music partition?

Posted Mar 12, 2009 · 16:49 UTC#6

Bump... because Im curious on learning also

Posted Mar 12, 2009 · 16:51 UTC#7

I do it with Acronis as I am restoring the image. Instead of selecting all partitions at the same time, I choose just one, then it allows me to set the partition size...

Some people use special partitioning software...

Posted Mar 12, 2009 · 18:32 UTC#8

Doese this mean I could use a 250 Gig hard drive in the Z2?

I'm new just wondering since he stated laptop drive up above..

Posted Mar 12, 2009 · 19:13 UTC#9

Must be a Toshiba PATA drive. I personally do not recommend partitioning more than 60gb of any drive. The only partition that benefits from resizing is the music partition. We are still bound by the database limitations of the pioneer software. This limitation is 400 unique artists and 400 unique albums (CDs).

The stock 30gb drive gives you a 9gb music partition and will hold about 165 cds.

The 40gb drive gives you about a 18gb music partition and will hold about 330 cds.

The 60gb drive gives you about a 37gb music partition and will not fill up before you hit the 400/400 limits.

Posted Apr 11, 2009 · 11:01 UTC#10

Is it possible to rip the cd's while the drive is attached to the pc?

Since the drive will be hooked up to disable security, it would save us a lot of time ripping directly from the pc, instead of mounting the drive to the Avic and then rip them one by one.

Posted Apr 11, 2009 · 11:50 UTC#11

Is it possible to rip the cd's while the drive is attached to the pc?
Since the drive will be hooked up to disable security, it would save us a lot of time ripping directly from the pc, instead of mounting the drive to the Avic and then rip them one by one.

No, because that would assume we know how the ripped CDs are archived/stored, which would also mean you could have just copied them in the first place... :wink: