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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Display power-off, larger RAMRe: Display power-off, larger RAM
From: Matthias Wächter <matthias_at_waechter.wiz.at>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 02:32:22 +0200 >>And my new 40GB hard drive for my player arrived today, let's see how >>to deal with it tonight. > No big deal. I changed the 20 GB drive in my recorder against a 60 GB Toshiba > drive some days after I bought the Jukebox. The hardest thing is not to bend the > metal parts of the case while dissassembling and reassembling the unit. I formatted > and filled the new drive with data on the PC with an 2.5" IDE-adapter. Dont know, > what is happening if the drive is built in unformatted. Wow, I got it working even without the 2.5" adapter under Windows XP, directly via USB! What a success! After playing with my incompatible server's USB port under Linux (some very old Intel chipset with one of the first USB hubs on-board) and despairing about the missing adapter I found a solution! As frequently noted the hardest thing is to format any drive with more than 32 GB under XP (because XP's fat32 driver refuses the formatting process). I found a program called 'Paragon Partition Manager' which is available in a 'trial' version for free. With this you can format the drive even under the NT-based Windows variants without any problem, the limitations of the trial version (no partition resizing etc.) are of no concern for this simple partitioning and format process. BTW: With the Partition Manager the whole drive is one partition, with XP's Computer Manager dialog I got some 8 MB free at the drive's end (of course just at partitioning). Conclusion: Neither partitioning nor formatting is well done by Microsoft's native tools. The tool is available at http://www.partition-manager.com I hope that helps. Sehr Wus, - Matthias Received on 2002-09-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |