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

Hi.
Henni, this is not true.
I upgraded my Audya with an Ajamsonic ssd. Then messed up the connectors of it. Managed to fix it enough so that I could connect it to a pc. But didnt trust the soldering enough to use it in the audya for live use.
So I bought a new SSd disk and cloned the old one using a free clone software. Everything works great!
The only thing is that you have to format the new disk to fat 32. Ssd disks will only format to ntfs or xfat. So you have to software for that. I found it on google.
I can post what software to use later, if you want to know.

Stian

Thanks everyone for your help.Will any 80GB IDE 2.5" work ok in Audya.
I opened mine today to check and label on hard drive said not suitable for laptop computer.Do I need a different drive for this.
Also,can I just copy everything at once or do I have to copy individual folders in a special sequence.
I am sorry but I am not very experienced at this.

yes,80 gb ide 2.5 will work but you can change with a ssd hd via adaptor (i did)
you can copy everything at once..or you can take a disk image with a software (like acronis)

Stian what software did you use for this? thanks

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