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Sansa e250 Disk Drive Capacity Issue .

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Roy.A:

--- Quote from: saratoga on July 23, 2010, 03:52:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: Roy.A on July 23, 2010, 03:45:07 PM ---Sorry guys i think i screwed something .
i thought about formatting the whole drive but i dont know if this will help + i dont want to lose the original sansa firmware inside, because i dont know how to find it and install it later . . . shoot me  :'(

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That option asked you if you want something saved to disk or deleted.  You saved it to disk.  If you want it deleted, go and delete it.  Or don't.  It doesn't really matter.

But yes if the disk check doesn't work, formatting is probably a good idea.

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A. What your saying about the Yes or No thing looks contradicting to what yapper said ... he made it sound a lot worse (i'll quote him : "Unless you plan on taking a crash course in file recovery techniques, you should select No") so i dont get it, i thought i messed something up .

B. If you are saying that by choosing Yes i saved something to disk, where exactly this "thing" was saved, because like i said the drive inside looked unchanged, no new folders where created and the real folders total capacity didnt change ... so i dont get that too, Sorry .

C. Is there a way to switch between the USB modes (MSC/MTP) of the player via rockbox ? because i know its sometimes crucial in helping to fix the player if you got some problem ... in fact this reason is the only thing that holding me from formatting the whole drive, because i know i'll lose the original sansa firmware (where if i'll need, i can do the USB switch in the future for sure...)
i dont know where to get and how to install the sansa firmware, so if you guys will tell me that i can do the USB switch via rockbox (and how to do it) - then i won't need the sansa firmware for anything and i could just format the drive and move on without any worries . . .

Thanks for all the help and time you people are giving me !

AlexP:
a) Yapper's comment meant that if you say yes, then it will save the unknown/broken bits of data it found to disk, which you could then try and recover.  If you say no, then it just removes it and doesn't save them.  This is what saratoga said.  They both agree.

b) Don't know, they should be in the root (top) directory

c) No, Rockbox doesn't have a MTP mode yet.  Formatting the drive will not remove the sansa firmware, it is stored elsewhere on the disk.

Roy.A:
WOW i guess luck is just not my thing ...

I tried to format the drive ( Sansa e250 (F:) > Right-Click > Format > Start )
then the moment i pressed it, a window popped up saying : "Windows was unable to complete the format"

I checked later "Quick Format" and tried it, worked successfully .
then i wanted to see if the regular format will work, i tried it again and the same "Windows was unable to complete the format" window popped up .

What does it mean ? ...

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