Hi guys, so I have a couple older Request Audio Servers. One is my customer's Nitro Pro (ARQ3) and the other is my own N. Series (ARQ4). Both have 80GB hard drives. The ARQ3 drive won't boot up, but the hard drive from the ARQ4 does boot up fine in the ARQ3 machine. So, I'm trying to clone that working drive to a brand new 80GB drive. I've tried Norton Ghost and Clonezilla and neither have worked properly. Ghost said it finished, but the drive didn't show up when hooked into a Windows machine, and wouldn't boot in the Request unit. Clonezilla, came up with a couple errors during the cloning, and while the drive showed up when hooked to a Windows machine, it said "drive G is not formatted". Where, the original source drive shows up and let's browse me through the folders and even play songs.

So, maybe I'm missing something here. I don't have the Request software to try to load onto the new drive from the Request machine, so I thought cloning a working drive would be a good solution. Well, six hours later.... I'm still at the same place. Has anyone been successful with this process? or have a good solution for me (Request software, etc.)?

Thanks,
Greg

I've been able to recover music files using a Linux VM, so I'd say try that, save to a NAS, and install Sonos or Autonomics or Bluesound or your flavor of music playback hardware.

[Link: samba.org]