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Creative Zen Vision:M
mcuelenaere:
--- Quote from: Transience on May 03, 2008, 11:32:59 PM ---I was playing around with my ZVM, and I found something strange:
I booted the player into recovery mode,
Erased the firmware (Reload Firmware)
Ran disk cleanup (Clean Up)
And formatted the player (Format All)
Now when I connect the player to my PC, it still shows up as a creative zen vision M, but now it shows up as a 50mb partition formatted in "Generic Hierarchial". Which part of the ZVM's HDD am i seeing here?
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This is the minifs partition aka the firmware part; it contains the main firmware and some database files. This is also where Rockbox is stored.
mophead740:
Hey,
I've been thinking lately about ways in which we can reformat the zvm for rb without plugging the drive directly into the computer.
and i thought the only way I know to do it, is through the media explorer (that creative thing that you install but never use lol).
but anyway, you can use that software to reformat the zvm.
is there anyway that we can reverse engineer this app to reformat it for rockbox, or is this beyond the ability of anyone here?
i think development would really speed up here if we could get a software formatting solution available because there would be so many more people willing to help.
so just thought I'd post this.
any ideas??
Ben
edit by mcuelenaere:
fixed some spelling mistakes
laughs, sorry about my spelling, english is actually my first language and im pretty good at speaking and writing it, I just type too fast and am too lazy to get the spelling right all the time (i typed slower on this one). Blame MSN.
mcuelenaere:
--- Quote from: mophead740 on May 04, 2008, 06:05:00 AM ---Hey,
I've been thinking lately about ways in which we can reformat the zvm for rb without plugging the drive directly into the computer.
and i thought the only way I know to do it, is through the media explorer (that creative thing that you install but never use lol).
but anyway, you can use that software to reformat the zvm.
is there anyway that we can reverse engineer this app to reformat it for rockbox, or is this beyond the ability of anyone here?
i think development would really speed up here if we could get a software formatting solution available because there would be so many more people willing to help.
so just thought I'd post this.
any ideas??
Ben
edit by mcuelenaere:
fixed some spelling mistakes
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Could you specify "reformatting the ZVM" ? (I've never used the Creative Media Explorer)
Even if the HDD were formatted, we would still have to get direct access to it so we can get a FAT partition on it.
And BTW, it is possible to do this purely by software; the only thing that needs to be done is the USB driver, which is currently blocked by the lack of stable working interrupts.
If this would work, we could upload (bootloader) Rockbox through Recovery Mode and enable the USB chip, only giving us the second partition which your OS (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/...) should format as FAT. Then you would upload the whole .rockbox/ folder and again enter Recovery Mode. Then you should upload "normal" Rockbox which will find the FAT partition and load all the needed files.
The only disadvantage of this method, is that dual booting won't be working (as the original partition (cfs) will be deleted, so even if the OF would be loaded it would give undefined behavior)
imfloflo:
Hey , i'm owner of ZVM 30gb and i want to help and test this firmware on my player.
Is there a description or a HowTo , to install your Rockbox firmware on the player.
I am a student in a school computer engineer and I'd like to see what it gives.
Thx Flo.
mcuelenaere:
--- Quote from: imfloflo on May 04, 2008, 07:18:15 AM ---Hey , i'm owner of ZVM 30gb and i want to help and test this firmware on my player.
Is there a description or a HowTo , to install your Rockbox firmware on the player.
I am a student in a school computer engineer and I'd like to see what it gives.
Thx Flo.
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I'll put the current install method at the wiki; you'll find it a few posts back..
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