Does anyone know of a way to backup the music from the Music Box on a 2008 Nissan Armada onto another Hard Drive?I would hate to see this Hard Drive crash,and all my labor of feeding hundred's of cd's into it wasted,and have to do it all again.My understanding is that this is actually a 30GB HD,which 20GB is alotted for the Nav system and misc things,and 9.3GB is for the Music Box.I have contacted Nissan Technical Dept. and they said no.I don't believe them,because they probably don't know themselves.I also contacted Clarion,which makes the radio for Bose,and they keep trying to refer me back to Nissan.If anyone should know if it could be done it should be the people that made the radio you would think.:confused:

Man I am pretty technical.. and no matter what file system it is if you can get to the drive I am pretty sure it could be backed up... dd works great in linux for such task... Unfortunately I don't have it in my budget 08

How fast does it Rip CD's? My wife had an aftermarket hd navi with similiar features. My wife's was painfully slow (basically ripped at 1x) and only got track titles if the CD was newer. We found that ripping on a computer, and then transferring the mp3's via dvd-r was the way to go. That way you already have a backup.

I Know that doesn't help you much, but it might help someone else before investing a lot of time.

If you can get the hd out. You'll need an USB to ide/Sata adapter.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.474

Then you can use linux to clone the drive. There's actually a free bootable CD that automates this task so you don't have to know your way arount the command line:

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

I've used this a few times for weird process control stuff that windows won't recognize. I'm sure it would work for backing up your disk.

How fast does it Rip CD's? My wife had an aftermarket hd navi with similiar features. My wife's was painfully slow (basically ripped at 1x) and only got track titles if the CD was newer. We found that ripping on a computer, and then transferring the mp3's via dvd-r was the way to go. That way you already have a backup.

I Know that doesn't help you much, but it might help someone else before investing a lot of time.

If you can get the hd out. You'll need an USB to ide/Sata adapter.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.474

Then you can use linux to clone the drive. There's actually a free bootable CD that automates this task so you don't have to know your way arount the command line:

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

I've used this a few times for weird process control stuff that windows won't recognize. I'm sure it would work for backing up your disk.


The system rips the cd's at a decent rate considering it's in the car.For the length of 2 songs,it rips the whole cd.I did make my own cd-rw discs for certain mp3's that i had on my computer that i didn't have the commercial cd's for,and even though Nero is good for cd-text,sometimes the car would read it,and sometimes it wouldn't.Meaning,i would now have to manually type in the track information(and that was alot of them!).So the backup would not only have to backup the music,but also the text information correctly.