From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:14:47 +0000

Use a patition table editor (eg. partition magic, phipps, fdisk, cfdisk,
etc) and tell us what the partition table on the drive says.

At 23:40 18/01/04, you wrote:
>Intruder alert....Mixed media sculptor stumbled into archos/rockbox
>discussion email list with slight dilemma...
>
>Recently replaced my 6gb recorder hard drive with a new 20gb. My Mac reads
>everything fine but I simply can't get anything to come up on the
>recorder...always getting the same screen -
>
>FILE SYSTEM ERROR
>
>No Valid FAT16/32
>file system found
>
>Please Format Drive
>
>Problem is this idiot can replace the drive but has no idea how to format
>it...I initialized it perfectly and have already got some mp3s on it...but I
>just can't listen to them...any help would be greatly appreciated...I am a
>novice here so any specific info would be even more appreciated...
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Artnok
Received on 2004-01-19