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MUSE Receptor
Hard Drive Cloning Project

MUSE went bust without publishing an unlocked version of the Receptor operating system software. This means that due to the licensing model that they adopted, if the hard drive in my RECEPTOR 1.0 REV C fails then I may not be able to recover it.

Good news is that apparently you can clone the hard drive.

So in this set of videos I setout to clone the drive that came with my existing MUSE Receptor 1.0 rev C.

The original plan was to replace the mechanical hard drive that was installed by the factory in the Receptor with a modern solid state drive or SSD. That failed and the videos go into the detail of why.

The next option was to install a newer mechanical harddrive and create an cloned ISO image of the hard drive that came with the instrument.

So I have an ISO image stored that becomes my disaster recover protection and a new larger mechanical hard drive that can be used in the Muse Receptor in my studio. And at the time of writing I have two MUSE Receptor instruments in use.

This is the first of a series of videos how I cloned the hard drive in the Receptor.

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Part 01 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Cloning Background to the problem

Part 01 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Cloning Background to the problem video

In this video on the Receptor I attempt to describe the issues that have been created by the company behind this Virtual Instrument Player (VST), Muse Research going bust and just disappearing, has caused to those that own the Muse Receptor platform.

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Part 02 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Cloning What needs to done and how?

Part 02 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Cloning What needs to done and how? video card

After some investigation I describe how I thought I was going to clone the Receptor and what I need to undertake this task.

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Part 03 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive CloningRevenge of the Hard Drive

Part 03 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive CloningRevenge of the Hard Drive video card

My attempt to clone the original Seagate 250GB Barracuda drive that was installed in my Receptor. Up to this point my attempts to clone the drive to an SSD have failed.

So I am changing tack. I have ordered a second hand 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA drive to see if I can clone to a mechanical drive.

One of the things that I have found with many of the cloning videos on YouTube is the fact that the screen displays are not clear. I have tried to ensure that you can see every step of the process so that you can repeat my steps and see if you can clone this drive.

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Part 03a MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Cloning Round 1 to the clone

MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Cloning Round 1 to the clone video card

This video is an update about the issues and some interesting facts that I have found out about the Receptor 1.0 Rev C. If you haven't tuned your BIOS then check out the last part of the video where I disclose some changes I have made that increased the boot speed of the Receptor.

Not sure what happened to the focus on the first part of the video. No you don't need new glasses.

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Part 04 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Partition Magic

Part 04 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Partition Magic video card

The attempt to clone the original Seagate 250GB Barracuda drive that was installed in my Receptor. As you know from part 3 I have surprisingly cloned the 250GB hard drive to a 1TB hard drive.

But because I have cloned the drive it has only used a quarter of the available space in the new drive. In order to use all the drive I need to extend the Linux partition to recognise all os the available space. This is how I did it using PartedMagic.

And just to round off the video I changed the onboard battery for good luck!

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Part 05 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Hard Drive Swap Fact or Fiction between Receptors

Part 05 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive Hard Drive Swap Fact or Fiction between Receptors video card

If you have followed the MUSE Receptor Revenge of the Clone series you will know that I have managed to clone the hard drive in in my Receptor. If you haven't sorry for the spoiler!

In this video I look to dismiss the fact that you can't move the hard drive in the MUSE Receptor Rev C to another Receptor Rev C. The user groups contain different information on whether this can be achieved or not.

I am therefore going to prove whether this is fact or fiction.

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Part 06 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive I cloned to SSD - well sort of

Part 06 MUSE Receptor Hard Drive I cloned to SSD - well sort of video card

The last of the videos in this sequence on cloning the Receptor hard drive.

After a number of MUSE super users have been in touch I have managed to clone the hard drive in the MUSE unit to an SSD, but not using the SATA interface. This video walks through how I finally undertook the cloning.

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