iriver H320: how to detect if the harddisc is faulty?

[drx]

Hello, i wonder if the HD in my iriver is broken. Although i had the disk checked with Windows' built-in disk checker and no errors where found, the following problems keep coming up:
- some fonts have garbled letters
- bookmarking fails from time to time
- recording produces a directory full of unusable files from time to time
- i already had to re-copy the .rockbox directory to the player because the bootloader couldn't find the rockbox image

Does this look like a broken HD or are these known problems with the latest release? How can i check if the HD needs to be replaced?

I got the player second hand recently, so i do not know how it was before ...

Best greetings,
drx

[bluebrother]

it could be a messed up file system. Have you tried running chkdsk /f on the drive?

[drx]

Thanks! I had the HD checked with chkdsk /f and indeed lots of errors were found. (I dosfsck'ed before on Linux and it wasn't showing them.) So i formatted the HD from Windows. But the same errors keep coming up. It looks like the harddisk is indeed broken.

Is there a handy tutorial online on how to exchange the HD?

Best greetings,
drx

[bluebrother]

check this page: http://www.misticriver.net/wiki/index.php/Customize_Your_H1xx_or_H3xx

[Undesirable]

And have a look at this nice hard drive to replace your faulty one:

http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6015