Hey all,

Im wondering if you guys think there is any way to pull out the stock HDD and then load music onto it by hooking it up to a computer. I have pulled harddrives out of numerous laptops, desktop pc's, and then hooked them up to other pc's to look through them. any shot you think this will work and that the nav will recognize the music after i get it all in there?

 

You could possibly do this after unlocking the harddrive... it's a lot harder than just hooking it up to your computer.

 

thats stinks and is weird. So your saying that mitsubishi has some sort of eccryption on the hd? and i wonder if and how long it will take before one of the harddrives craps out.

 

Burn it to a CDRW and enjoy.

 

yea i know you can burn it to a cd but i wanted to be able to transfer over like 4 gigs worth of music in a matter of minutes. lol. Idk i may pull the HD out and i guess be one of the first to try it this way? we will see how it goes....

 

The hard drive has encryption due to the fact that it's licensed software for the Nav. Good luck with actually putting music on it and being able to play it; there's no code in the O/S to play music from the hard drive.

EDIT: bad wording... there is no way for the O/S to play your transfered music... only through it's own software.

 

Start Here: http://www.mitsubishiforum.com/m_208034/tm.htm

 

The issue is that when the music is ripped off the CD it's put onto the hard drive in a non standard format. So just dropping MP3s or WMAs (or some other format) onto the hard drive isn't going to fly. It's also possible that the files are indexed in a database (or flat file of some sort) and you'll need to update that index.

You'll need the tiny torx screw driver to get the hard drive out and then you'll need the unlocking bootable CD and the key from one of the mitsubishiforums threads (and the code is different depending on your version). Once the drive is unlocked, you'll be able to look at the contents and you'll see the files that the navi has pulled off of music CDs on there (among lots of other stuff). People have tried dropping music on there before without success.

I bet it can be done... it's just a matter of making it work. Maybe Otaku is working on it?

 

yea im sure its going to be weird to do. But as soon as i can find a torx driver i am going to pull it and see what i can do. Putting music on it by each individual cd just takes so long and most times the names of all the songs dont show up and im just sick of the way they are all going in there. I will be sure to keep everyone posted on how it goes.

 

Lowes has a torx screw driver set for < $10 that has the one you need.

 

It's easy to get to the hard drive unencrypted. The problem is that the Mitsubishi software doesn't read mp3's natively so if you drop mp3's on there, it won't do anything with them.

As stated previously when it rips a CD it stores the music in a proprietary format. figure out the format, convert your mp3's to that format, then drop them onto the hard drive and boom problem solved. Sounds easy, in reality . . . not so much

 

ok well how hard/how do i get the hard drive unlocked once i remove it from my car?

 

Instructions in the above url ^