Gigabeat S30 always go into recovery mode and delete all data in data drive

[9homme]

Everytime when I turn batt off and on, My gigabeat will go to recovery mode (No. 4 Shown on screen) and all data in HDD is deleted. so I have to re-copy .rockbox and all of my music.
I'm using dual boot mode.

Please help.

Thanks

[bluebrother]

How did you install the bootloader? Are you sure you have installed the dualboot bootloader? This issue happens on players with newer firmware when installing the single boot bootloader.

[9homme]

Yes, I have installed dual boot loader with beastpatcher -d .

The problem is when I unplug usb cable, s30 go black screen, so I have to turn bat off and on again.

After i turn batt on, it go to recovery mode and delete all my data.

After that, I have to format data disk before copy .rockbox (if I not format, "File not found" happened).

The method that I use to format the disk is normal format with windows's utility.

should I use "mkdosfs -f 2 -F 32 -S 512 -s 64 -v -n TFAT /path/to/partition/device" command?
if yes, what is "/path/to/partition/device"if my data drive is f:?

[bluebrother]

After that, I have to format data disk before copy .rockbox (if I not format, "File not found" happened).

Are you sure you copied the .rockbox folder to the correct partition? There are two partitions with the same volume name (both named "TFAT"), and formatting is done by the player itself if it detects errors. If you format the player yourself something is wrong.

should I use "mkdosfs -f 2 -F 32 -S 512 -s 64 -v -n TFAT /path/to/partition/device" command?
if yes, what is "/path/to/partition/device"if my data drive is f:?

No, you shouldn't format the partition, and it's not possible to say which device file the player will get when connected to a Linux machine.

[9homme]

Hi


Thank you for your help.

After let my s30 to be format by its firmware again and then copy .rockbox to device.

It work fine. I don't know why it cannot work before but this time before I take off usb cable, I will wake the lcd backlight and it will work fine.

Thanks