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This http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm program has been recommended for formating disks larger than 32 GB to FAT32 many times, never tried it myself though. If that fails, the iriver firmware supposedly has a format function that will reformat the disk for you.
nalrod:
Also tried Swissknife before i got PartitionMagic. Same thing... i got errors when i tried to format. I tried using the format function that came with the iriver firmware, but it errored as well. I thought maybe because I had already formated with WinXP from 40 to 32gigs. I don't know if this would have thrown the firmware program off. Maybe my drive is worse off than I thought. But, again, I don't know.
--nalrod
LambdaCalculus:
Try GParted; you can download it as a CD image and boot your PC from it.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
I've used this to format my girlfriend's iriver to FAT32 when she first got it, plus my Archos JBR. It worked perfectly both times for me.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: nalrod on September 20, 2007, 04:47:45 PM ---Also tried Swissknife before i got PartitionMagic. Same thing... i got errors when i tried to format. I tried using the format function that came with the iriver firmware, but it errored as well. I thought maybe because I had already formated with WinXP from 40 to 32gigs. I don't know if this would have thrown the firmware program off. Maybe my drive is worse off than I thought. But, again, I don't know.
--nalrod
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If pretty much every tool you're throwing at it is giving you the same problems - then I'm guessing the harddrive is failing.
For god's sake don't get rid of the player though - just get a replacement harddrive. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater!
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: GodEater on September 21, 2007, 03:53:38 AM ---For god's sake don't get rid of the player though - just get a replacement harddrive. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater!
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... and a "nice" way to get rid of the player (if you really want to get rid of it) is to donate it to the project ;)
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