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nalrod:
Hello friends and well-wishers, I'm the lucky owner of an Iriver H140. I've recently added Rockbox to my player. One thing I have been puzzled with however is how to reformat my player to have 40gigs again. The player became unreadable a while back and I formatted it to FAT32, but WinXP can only format FAT32 up to 32gigs. So I have an Iriver with 32gigs instead of 40... I even tried using PartitionMagic to format to 40G, but it I was unsuccesful. I can't remember the error it gave off the top of my head because it was a while ago. I ended up using WinXP to format it. I don't know if there is disk damage and if there is, if there is anything I can do to fix it. Since I've installed Rockbox, i've been waiting for it to finish 'initializing database'. It's been over an hour. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with my 32gig format problem. Anyway that's about all the info I've got. Any help is appreciated. thanks... nalrod

GodEater:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/download/fat32format.zip

nalrod:
Thanks for the tool. I tried it once with the old hard drive size of 32GB. But I didn't have any luck. got a "...failed to write" message. So I formated the whole thing (luckily my music is backed up on my computers) and reset the H140. I used PartitionMagic again to reformat the iriver so that all 40GB would be in one partition. But i could only do it in NTFS. But once I got it all in one partition (drive 'e') I couldn't format it all to FAT32. Can fat32format convert a NTFS drive to FAT32? Here's where I stand...


fat32format e:\
Warning ALL data on drive 'e' will be lost irretrievably, are you sure
(y/n) :y
Size : 39GB 78107967 sectors
512 Bytes Per Sector, Cluster size 32768 bytes
Volume ID is 16ff:2f55
32 Reserved Sectors, 9533 Sectors per FAT, 2 fats
1220138 Total clusters
1220137 Free Clusters
Formatting drive e:...
Clearing out 19162 sectors for Reserved sectors, fats and root cluster...
Failed to write


drat,
nalrod

GodEater:
That's a little irritating :(

It's the only windows tool I know of that will write a greater than 32GB FAT32 file system though.

What caused the problem before that made you reformat in the first place? Is it possible there are bad sectors on the drive or something ?

nalrod:
It's possible, if not, likely that there are. I'm not sure though, because chkdsk and norton disk doctor both give errors when trying to read it. I'm in the process of re-re-formatting it to FAT32 at 32gigs. At least I might be able to use it again. As I stand now, I might be in market for a new mp3 player.  :-\  My thoughts were that I might be able to create two partitions accounting for all the memory and format/check them independently to see what kind of problem i'm looking at. If chkdsk can actually fix the problems and there are two healthy FAT32 partitions on my iriver, maybe I can merge them into one, then format the whole thing with fat32format. However all this tinkering and fiddling may have done irrepairable damage; if it did have some problems, my attempt at meddling may have just done it in. But i'm still hopeful. I'm gonna wait until tomorrow, when it's done formating a 32GB and 7G partition on the iriver, and see if I can't get it to work. If not, do you have any advice on a totally awesome mp3 player for a reasonable price? (I don't know if that last question is cool to ask, so if it's not I apologize in advance...) thanks...

nalrod

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