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Multiplex:
If the drive is faulty replacing it is very easy.

Mikerman:
When I initialized my 48gb / 500  CD or-so (probably 15-20 tracks per CD) database yesterday on my clean 60gb hard drive, it took between 1 and 1-1/2 hours, as far as I recall.

nalrod:
finished running chkdsk:

100 percent completed.
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows is verifying free space...
Bad sectors found.ted.....
Free space verification is complete.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
   32,748,528 KB total disk space.
           48 KB in 1 hidden files.
           48 KB in 3 folders.
    2,432,512 KB in 1,333 files.
       33,424 KB in bad sectors.
   30,282,480 KB are available.

       16,384 bytes in each allocation unit.
    2,046,783 total allocation units on disk.
    1,892,655 allocation units available on disk.
Some file allocation tables (FAT) are unwriteable.

but now the drive is unreadable and or unformatted to Windows. I tried using partition magic again to format fat32 but got a CRC error. So I guess I'll find instructions on how to replace a drive somewhere on this forum? any suggestions... thanks for all the feed back...

Multiplex:
Drive replacement is as simple as;

remove all the screws (10 - 4 on the top cap, 4 on the bottom, one on each side) - you should use a small Torx drive but I use a watchmaker's flatblade

pull off the end caps

the back comes away revealing the HDD under a protective rubber mat(may vary).

It's easy once you have confidence (I've done battery and HDD) but you'll probably nervous first time.

A longer description with pictures is here;
http://www.misticriver.net/wiki/index.php/H1xx_Hard_Drive_Replacement
and another here(about the battery but once there you see the HDD);
http://www.misticriver.net/wiki/index.php/H1xx_Internal_Battery_Replacement

Then you need to partition/format, but you've had a bit of prcatice ;-)

Good Luck!

Mikerman:
Putting a 60gb hard drive in the player took me about 1 hour plus supporting "maintenance chores" time, going deliberately--I was in no rush.

--  20 minutes to back up my old drive in the player, and then to delete its contents and reformat the drive using the iRiver firmware's format command (most of the time the computer was doing the back-up and I was doing something else)
--  1 hour to open up the player; remove the old drive; unbox and insert the new drive; close the player; and fire up my computer and start and run SwissKnife on the new drive, reading the SwissKnife instructions/help files as well
--  about 1 hour for SwissKnife to format and partition the drive, doing a full (non-quick) format (with me watching a TV show)
--  about 20 minutes to check out the performance of the player with the formatted and partitioned drive and to prepare to transfer my music back to the player from the back-up
--  about 1-1.5 hours to transfer my backup (about 48gb) to the player (back to the TV show ...).

As noted above, the "hard" part in the process is just the nerves in operating on the player (and being concerned about losing a tiny screw or screwing up the player endcaps (plastic)), plus, for me, getting SwissKnife running as I wanted (its instructions in how to do a full format are not as explicit as I would like (or maybe it's just me), and I only got the full format to run after a quick format was run).

And there are some good deals on 60gb drives out there.

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