I would recommend the following steps to upgrade the harddrive in your RNS510.
- First determine if your radio's harddrive is a traditional spinning device
or a solid state device (SSD). The later versions were upgraded to SSD
harddrives.
- Do you know the security pin number of your harddrive? If not, take it
in to the dealership and ask them to give it to you, ideally at no cost. If
that does not work, I would recommend using your RNS510 diagnositc cable to
determine the PIN number, or worst case reset it. If that is uncomfortable,
you can search on eBay for a reputable person to determine the PIN number and
sell it to you; I have good success with this and the cost is ~C$10.
- Use the RNS510 Manager software to connect to your radio and read the
status of your current harddrive. My drive looked like the following:

- Read the status and partitioning of your current harddrive; this is a 40GB drive:
tShell drive status for drive : HDB
tShell drive size : 40007761920
tShell number of volumes : 3
tShell status : OK
tShell volume name : /hdb1 volume label : VIENNA FFS
tShell status : OK filesystem : VIENNA access type : no access partition type : Primary
tShell total size : 19998441472
tShell remaining size : 19761315840
tShell volume name : /hdb2 volume label :
tShell status : OK filesystem : FAT32 access type : no access partition type : Primary
tShell total size : 9992003584
tShell remaining size : 2855100416
tShell volume name : /hdb3 volume label :
tShell status : OK filesystem : FAT32 access type : no access partition type : Primary
tShell total size : 9992003584
tShell remaining size : 9932201984
- Take your radio apart; the directions for this can be found on the Internet.
I have posted two good resources under References & Links. this
is not very difficult, but takes a clean working space and should be done without
interuption so you do not forget how to reassemble the radio.
- After the radio is assembled with the new harddrive, read it's status and
make sure that it is recognized. This is a 64GB drive that is not partitioned:
tShell drive status for drive : HDB
tShell drive size : 64105742336
tShell number of volumes : 1
tShell status : OK
tShell volume name : /hdb1 volume label :
tShell status : UNKNOWN filesystem : FAT32 access type : UNKNOWN partition type : Primary
tShell total size : 0
tShell remaining size : 0

Note that the above image does not show POI checked off; I would recommend that this be used.
- I re-partioned the harddrive. I recommend using Points Of Interest (POI) storage,
but I have not had a lot of time to use this feature.work on the radio. I then partitioned the drive a second
time with POI storage. Here is a screen capture with no POI storage and drive info:
tShell drive status for drive : HDB
tShell drive size : 64105742336
tShell number of volumes : 3
tShell status : OK
tShell volume name : /hdb1 volume label :
tShell status : OK filesystem : VIENNA access type : no access partition type : Primary
tShell total size : 31943819264
tShell remaining size : 31943806976
tShell volume name : /hdb2 volume label :
tShell status : OK filesystem : FAT32 access type : no access partition type : Primary
tShell total size : 16010739712
tShell remaining size : 16010715136
tShell volume name : /hdb3 volume label :
tShell status : OK filesystem : FAT32 access type : no access partition type : Primary
tShell total size : 16010739712
tShell remaining size : 16010715136
- Disconnect the RNS510 cable and reassemble the radio into the automoible.
- Load in the latest firmware into the radio.
- Load in the latest version of maps available.
- Enjoy! Go for a drive...
Last Updated 2019.11.23