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Hard drive too full to boot into OF

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Penstro:
I'm not what you would call an advanced user. I looked up fsck and what I could gather it's for linux, but I'm running windows. Everything in the IRC Chat log is much too complicated for me.

I Have a new question. If i format it, will i be able to reinstall OF, and then rockbox again?

Chronon:
In Windows you can use chkdsk to check (and fix) the file system for errors.

Flyn Dice said this:

--- Quote ---Plug your player into the usb and wait for the Sandisk logo to appear. Now unplug the player before the database refresh starts. Should put you into the menu in the OF and you can format from there.

--- End quote ---
Hopefully that's not too compicated.

Penstro:
I'd forgotten to mention I'd tried to plugin-out quickly. did not work.

Tried running chkdsk on it. It says the system is RAW, and cant run on RAW drives.

Chronon:
You say it didn't work.  What happened instead of the expected behavior? 

It could be that the FAT is corrupted (so the partition is being seen as RAW).  It seems that formatting would help, but you need a way to update the firmware after doing so.  I guess you should take a look at the recovery mode.

There is a recovery mode that allows USB access for the e200 v2, even if the device can't be booted from internal memory.  http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaE200v2#Recovery_Mode_on_the_E200v2

Have a read of that and hopefully someone can confirm whether or not this is the best course of action for you.

funman:

--- Quote from: Penstro on April 10, 2010, 03:34:01 PM ---If i format it, will i be able to reinstall OF, and then rockbox again?

--- End quote ---

Yes sure, no problem.

You will only need to reinstall the rockbox build, because the OF and the rockbox bootloader will still be there.

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