Old Sony Handycam gets an upgrade

[@rzimbauer]

The captions guy needs a raise, well done. Now if you could create a USB adapter that fits to the bottom docking port you'd be my hero :) There's tons of working cameras for sale secondhand, but the SR40,60,80 and SR42,62,82 series needed a docking station with a proprietary connector to expose a USB port to pull the footage from the HDD inside.

[@Elias137]

Thanks for the video! Although my camera model is a bit different, it does helped me a lot to replace the ZIF drive.

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

Glad it helped!

[@spaduks]

Could you make movie about how to replace internal clock baterry?

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

I’ll look into that and get back to you. I’m guessing it shouldn’t be too difficult if it’s not too hard to find.

[@NDGeClass]

Where do buy the new harddisk? Which type harddisk is needed?

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

The link for the hard drive is in the description.

[@neilsontamjellyjam]

Great video, it really inspired me to do this to mine. But it also got me thinking, do you think the camera will still shoot to the memory stick only without any hard drive in place? Thank you!

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

Hmm not sure. You’d have to test it and see.

[@marxseet]

This is great. May I ask if there to a limit to the capacity of the solid state hard disk you can put in?

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

I read 128gb is the max but I haven’t tested it. There aren’t too many zif drives over 128gb that I’ve seen either.

[@marxseet]

@@MakeFixUpgrade Saw some Russian actually use the M.2 SSD. That would make the camcorder even lighter. Happy new year by the way.

[@Bartosz10000]

Hey, I have Sony DCR-DVD202E model and I bought a batterypack, it is not original and the problem is that I put the AC cable on and it seems to charge it because the yellow-orange light is ON, but later it starts to blink slow. The camera was not in use in years. I have 2 original batterypacks with the InfoLITHIUM sings etc. but there is the same problem with both of them. They are very old so maybe thats the reason, but with the new battery that I bought now? What is the problem? I can't find any help anywhere. The thing is that the camera works good while connected to the AC charger. Then I can record, open the DVD pocket, basically all works good. Years ago the charging worked normal, I have never had the separate charger for those batterypacks. I've charged them attached to the camera and it worked good. Help.

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

My guess would be the new battery is probably faulty. I’d return it and buy a different one.

[@Jcpineda26]

What kind of ssd should I use? Thanks

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

I have links in the description. Good luck!

[@shaun7308]

Hi there, what model was this? I have a Sony SHDR-SR200 and was wondering if the same HDD will work?

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

If yours uses a ZIF hard drive then it will work. This just replaces the existing platter zif drive with an ssd zif hard drive. Mine is an HDR-SR11

[@amrithdev2300]

i had a broken camcorder everio jvc-mg30u which is 30gb storage and I wanted get my lost vidoes so i took out the harddrive and put in another camera jvc-mg21u which is a very similar model that just comes with 20gb instead of 30, i dont want to format becuase it will delete my files but when i plug the camera into my computer it showws up as two usb hard drives one letter E and the other G the e one says its 20gs and i cant acces unless i format but the g one shows up as hidden and when i clikc it, it just says insert a disk into usb drive. PLEASE ANSWER QUICKLY ANY HELP SO I CAN GET MY FILES OR FORMAT WITHOUT LOSING DATA.

[@MakeFixUpgrade]

I would have a data recovery service try to recover it for you. I haven’t tried doing data recovery myself so afraid I won’t be much help for this one.

[@amrithdev2300]

@@MakeFixUpgrade thanks for the help though man