Hi everyone. I apologize if this has been question has been answered before.
I now have my Audya set up exactly as I want and I would like to know if it as possible to make a complete exact backup of the Audya's internal drive on to another hard drive, so if the Audyas suffered a hard drive failure,I could simply replace the drive with the clone.
If this is possible,I would appreciate any information on how to do it. Thank you.

open back cover of audya
unmount hdd
connect hdd to pc via ide usb converter
choose show hidden and protected system files from folder options
copy files to pc or other hdd

Thank you necdetdoni.Can I please ask,is it an IDE 2.5" hard drive in the Audya and do I need to do anything with the new drive (format or put some operating programme) before I start copying.If I copy all the files across,will the backup drive then work exactly the same as the original drive if put into the Audya ?

Hi my friend,

Yours is a very good idea. Just keep in mind your Audya will not work with a exact cloned HDD. Somehow the serial no. of your Audya and your HDD is referenced somewhere on your existing HDD and no one will tell you how to fix that. Also, some stuff definitely gets stored on your sound board, even some copy protected styles.

Good to have the backup should you mess up some files though.

Cheers mate,

Henni

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm
Used this for cloning the disk. Connected both disks to my computer via USB and cloned away.
You dont have to think about folders. Everything will be identical on both disks.

Stian

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
I used this to format to FAT 32.

Stian

Sorry guys,

Henni is correct !

The "serial-numer" of the keyboard doesn´t seem to be much relevant, it MUST BE the HDs serial number !

I did a sctor copy ( with "Acronis TrueImage" as well as with "file-zilla" ) of my original HD and restored it on a new HD.

MOST things work, but NOT THE COPY-PROTECTED STYLES as from the "Pen 2011 Update" or the "UK-Styles".

The same when I replaced my original HD with my SSD :

EVERYTHING BUT the 2011 and UK Updates worked fine.

The 2011 and UK-Pens are copy protected as well. If you used it in Audya once, there is no chance to use it again, even if it´s in the same keyboard with another HD!!!

Lucky who did a sector-copy of the stick(s) prior first use on Audya

@Stian : If you did a SECTOR copy there would be no need to format the new HD / SSD, because the restore would palce any bit exactly where it has to be.

MAYBE AJ found another solution....