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Subject: Re: about iaudio formatting

Re: about iaudio formatting

From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone_at_rockbox.open.source.it>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:13:59 +0100

On Monday 02 June 2008 12:49, RaZorbacK wrote:

> Now, about an iaudio. a guy gave me a non-working iaudio x5 and it is
> apparently NTFS-formatted. I've tried to format it back to Fat32 but in
> the windows formatting dialog box, the fat32 option is not showing up.
>
> So, how could I format this unit to fat32?

Try deleting the partition altogether and then creating a new one.

You should be able to specify the file system type when creating the
partition, and then format it as that type.


Antony.

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