Replacing the storage media
Disposal of storage media
Delete confidential or technologically important data from the storage media before disposing of it. If a storage medium is defective, you must destroy it mechanically to prevent access to the data.
The old storage media must be disposed of in accordance with the national electronic waste regulations.
For new storage media, please contact your Beckhoff Sales only. Hard disks from Beckhoff are optimized for industrial applications. SSDs from Beckhoff have a considerably higher lifetime expectancy than commercially available SSDs.
Data transmission before replacement
If you want to exchange a storage medium according to Beckhoff's recommendation, you must copy the data from the old to the new storage medium. You can use the Beckhoff Service Tool (BST) for this purpose. BST is a graphical backup and restore program for PCs with a Windows operating system. You can create an image of your operating system and use it to back up the operating system. Then you can restore the created image to a new data carrier. The BST is available on a bootable BST USB flash drive. This includes Windows and a backup software. Select the size of the BST USB flash drive according to the size of the backup copy of your operating system. You can then keep the flash drive as a backup copy. For this purpose, the BST USB flash drives are designed for particularly long data preservation by means of special flash. For more information on the function of the BST, please refer to the corresponding manual.
If your storage medium is defective and there is no backup, Beckhoff Service can provide you with a fresh Windows image. For this to be possible, the Beckhoff PC must already have been shipped with a valid operating system license. After installing the fresh image, the applications must be reinstalled.
Exchange hard disk
Proceed as follows to change the hard disk:
- 1. Unlock the hard drive caddy with the corresponding key (section A).
- 2. Pull the key of the hard drive caddy to unlock it (section B).
- 3. Open the hard drive caddy (section C).
- The hard disk is pushed out of the hard drive caddy.
- 4. Pull the hard disk out of the hard drive caddy (section D).
- 5. Reinsert the new hard disk in the same orientation.
- 6. Close the hard drive caddy again.
- 7. Lock the hard drive caddy again.
- You have replaced the hard disk.
Exchange SSD
If you have ordered your device with an SSD instead of an HDD, you have to proceed as follows when replacing the SSD:
- 1. Unlock the hard drive caddy with the corresponding key (section A).
- 2. Pull the key of the hard drive caddy to unlock it (section B).
- 3. Open the hard drive caddy (section C).
- 4. Pull the SSD out of the hard drive caddy by the protruding Beckhoff sticker (section D).
- 5. Reinsert the new SSD in the same orientation.
- 6. Close the hard drive caddy again.
- 7. Lock the hard drive caddy again.
- You have replaced the SSD.
