Replacing the storage media

For new storage media, please contact your Beckhoff Sales only. Hard disks from Beckhoff are optimized for industrial applications. SSDs have a considerably higher lifetime expectancy than commercially available SSDs.

Chapter 7.2 Maintenance shows how to access the storage media.

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 devices 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 tool. 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, your Beckhoff device must already have been delivered with a valid operating system license. After installing the fresh image, the applications must be reinstalled.

Exchange hard disk and SSD

Regardless of whether you have ordered your panel PC with a 2.5-inch hard disk or a 2.5-inch SSD, you must proceed in the same way when replacing the storage medium. To do this, follow the steps below as shown in Figure 17:

1. Remove the storage medium from the panel PC by pulling on the protruding Beckhoff sticker (section A).

2. Insert the new storage medium into the panel PC in the same orientation up to the stop (section B).

You have replaced the hard disk or SSD.

Replacing the CFast

To replace the CFast, follow the steps shown below in Fig. 18:

1. Press lightly against the CFast, as if pressing a button (section A).

When you release the CFast, the push-pull mechanism guides the CFast out of the slot far enough for you to grab it (section B).

2. Pull the CFast out of the PC (section C).

3. Insert the new CFast into the PC in the same orientation until it protrudes just a bit from the PC.

4. Press the CFast into the PC.

You have replaced the CFast.