GT - Sat Nav stuck on Maserati logo when it's cold

CatmanV2

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Contigo said:
This morning (cold!) the entertainment unit became really slow switching between sources and even volume control was about 10 seconds delayed! CD skipping at one point, I do wonder if they are all like that or if I need to replace the HD on mine with a newer faster HD or an SSD.
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Mine was fine at 3C this morning. Took longer for the twilight sensor to decide the sun was up though. I suspect that was just the angle of the sun.
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Contigo said:
Please can you send me a link to the drive you used and also software needed to backup the existing data etc...
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It was this one, though it was a bit cheaper than that I think. Any IDE SSD should do the trick, a Compact Flash card with an IDE adapter may be a cheaper option but I've not tried it!

As for the copying, I used a command line tool called dd. Are you a Windows, Mac or Linux user?
 
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FerrersWay said:
It was this one, though it was a bit cheaper than that I think. Any IDE SSD should do the trick, a Compact Flash card with an IDE adapter may be a cheaper option but I've not tried it!

As for the copying, I used a command line tool called dd. Are you a Windows, Mac or Linux user?
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Cheers, Windows and Linux Savvy but my computer is Windows.
 
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If your linux savvy then dd is probably as good as anything, it just needs to be able to do a bit-by-bit copy so you get the full partition table etc.

I used:
"sudo dd if=/dev/disk4 conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /path/to/backup.img.gz" - To back up the disk
"gunzip -c /path/to/backup.img.gz | dd of=/dev/disk4" to restore the disk

Obviously change/dev/disk4 for whatever it is on your system, and the file path for somewhere that exists. Remember, dd is a powerful thing and if you tell it to wipe your main hard drive by mistake, it will just do it!
 
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FerrersWay said:
If your linux savvy then dd is probably as good as anything, it just needs to be able to do a bit-by-bit copy so you get the full partition table etc.

I used:
"sudo dd if=/dev/disk4 conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /path/to/backup.img.gz" - To back up the disk
"gunzip -c /path/to/backup.img.gz | dd of=/dev/disk4" to restore the disk

Obviously change/dev/disk4 for whatever it is on your system, and the file path for somewhere that exists. Remember, dd is a powerful thing and if you tell it to wipe your main hard drive by mistake, it will just do it!
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Understood. I've used dd before.
 
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Mine is now stuck on the Trident logo as per Ferrers car so I have taken the infotainment console out and removed the HDD. It's a 30GB Toshiba Hard Drive and I aim to take an image but my caddy is not working for some reason. Any ideas of how to get the data off pronto?
 
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You're sure it's not your drive as opposed to your caddy? What are you using to determine if it's working or not? I can imagine Windows is just thinking 'There's a drive' and not telling you anything?

In any event, I suspect you'd need a working USB <> IDE connector or another caddy. Maplin should be able to help. As PCWorld (spit) might be able to

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Got the caddy working (intermittently) enough to get the contents of the drive off and onto a laptop HDD. I tried the CLoneZilla on my computer but it wouldn't run successfully so I am trying something called Driveimage.xml.
 
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What filing system is the drive formatted with?

There are a ton of good free tools we use as well as paid ones that will do the job very well at block level.
 
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Fixed!

Thanks to Moz for some words of encouragement. The only thing which I need to sort in the morning is the small black amp cable (USB device) lost its shroud and does not sit in properly so I will try to call in at a local electrical store and source an AMP connector. I tried changing the Bootscreen.bmp in the BOOT folder but it didn't let me , there is an out.inf file which it references too so something for another day when I have time. I plan to source an SSD as per Ferrer and use that in future.
 
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I'd imagine Maplin, RS Components or Farnell. Hard to see on that photo the exact connector.
 
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Went out this morning in -6 and frozen logo same as before. The drive I put in had been rolling about in a works bag for years so I didn't hold much hope for it anyway. 32GB SSD ordered and will be installed ASAP.
 
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New SSD installed and doing same, looks like it is loop booting. Looks like mine is a faulty PC unit now. It was worth a go. Now to find a second hand one!
 
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Unless it is an OS or image issue. Is it worth trying to get a copy of an image from a known good unit from another car?
 
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