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Subject: Re: how to format drive?

Re: how to format drive?

From: Manuel Dejonghe <manuel_at_dejonghe.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:58:54 +0200

Swissknife failed a few times now, and I don't know why.
This week, a new version of the Gparted-Live-CD was released. That
means that you can download this 30MB image, burn it to a cd, boot
from that CD and format the archos with that.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

~lImbus

On 6/21/06, Glenn at home <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net> wrote:
> I think you should be able to hook it up via USB and
> format it.
> You will want it partitioned as a FAT32, if it is not partitioned already.
> A program called SwissKnife is often used for this.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dennis barton" <dbarton_at_pacbell.net>
> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:48 PM
> Subject: how to format drive?
>
> If I get a new drive for my JBRHD15, do I need to format it somehow a
> laptop before installing in the JBR?
>
> If not, how can the JBR even boot up, with no Rockbox on the hard drive yet?
Received on 2006-06-21

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