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@raptus Funny you should ask as I did this very upgrade only this week on my 12-year old iRiver iHP-140. There are three steps to the procedure.
1. Install Rockbox on your stock player (remembering that if you ever want to reboot into normal iRiver firmware you simply hold the record button when powering on). Once installed make a copy of your current hard disk, *especially* the hidden .rockbox folder.
2. Install the battery (quite tricky to do properly - I did it the cheating way by cutting the old battery wires and splicing the new battery wires to it which saves having to take the whole motherboard out).
3. Install the new SSD. I bought the 128GB KingSpec 1.8-inch IDE CF 50-pin SSD Solid State Disk (MLC) which doesn't need any adapters it just plugs straight in.
In the above process step 1 is easy. The only tricky bit is that you can't install Rockbox without a copy of your iRiver firmware, and you must install Rockbox to be able to see the bigger disk sizes and allow FLAC support.
Step 2 is extremely fiddly to do properly as the battery connector is under the motherboard so you have to take it out. As I said I cheated by splicing but the wires are very short and thin so it's best to solder them rather than twisting.
Step 3 is the easiest but you have to do it last. Once disks are swapped simply boot into normal iRiver firmware by pressing record during power on, format the disk to FAT32 (you may have to download a free tool for Windows to do this), copy your files back and then reboot into Rockbox.
1. Install Rockbox on your stock player (remembering that if you ever want to reboot into normal iRiver firmware you simply hold the record button when powering on). Once installed make a copy of your current hard disk, *especially* the hidden .rockbox folder.
2. Install the battery (quite tricky to do properly - I did it the cheating way by cutting the old battery wires and splicing the new battery wires to it which saves having to take the whole motherboard out).
3. Install the new SSD. I bought the 128GB KingSpec 1.8-inch IDE CF 50-pin SSD Solid State Disk (MLC) which doesn't need any adapters it just plugs straight in.
In the above process step 1 is easy. The only tricky bit is that you can't install Rockbox without a copy of your iRiver firmware, and you must install Rockbox to be able to see the bigger disk sizes and allow FLAC support.
Step 2 is extremely fiddly to do properly as the battery connector is under the motherboard so you have to take it out. As I said I cheated by splicing but the wires are very short and thin so it's best to solder them rather than twisting.
Step 3 is the easiest but you have to do it last. Once disks are swapped simply boot into normal iRiver firmware by pressing record during power on, format the disk to FAT32 (you may have to download a free tool for Windows to do this), copy your files back and then reboot into Rockbox.