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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: unable to format hard drive?unable to format hard drive?
From: John Eckman <jeckman_at_molecular.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:31:17 -0500 My JBR20 has an 80 gig drive in it. Over the last month or so, I got some file/directory corruption on the disk. I'd like to reformat it, but I can't! - any recommendations? Running chkdsk with it connected over USB, all is fine. Running format /fs NTFS fails - gets all the way up to 100% complete and then just says "Format failed." (I know, NTFS isn't an option - just thought that if I could get the damn thing reformatted to anything, then I could go back to FAT32). Trying to use Partition Manager or similar to reformat directly to FAT32 I get "I/O Error" messages and the operation fails. I have a backup of all the files, so I am really just trying to get the thing blanked out so I can restore all the files. Any advice? (I don't have access currently to a linux box, just win2k or MacOS X). ---------------------- John Eckman Principal Consultant T 617 218 6525 F 617 218 6725 C 617 548 1263 jeckman_at_molecular.com Molecular 343 Arsenal St. Watertown, MA 02472 http://www.molecular.com/ _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-02-26 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |