help with installation

[akanie]

hello all,

i have a archos jukebox 6000 with a 12GB hard drive from an old laptop.  i have formatted the hard drive w/fat32 and downloaded the archos zip file and extracted them and copied it to my archos machine.  so basically the hard drive has the  archos.mod file and .rockbox folder.  i turned on my archos player and i see "rockbox" on my LED which quickly turns into a message that says "no partition".  i have search for answers on the forum and over the internet but is unable to find any information.  could anyone let me know about the following.

1. am i installing rockbox on my player correct?
2. why am i seeing the no partition error?

thanks in advance!

[Llorean]

Is the partition set to Primary?
(I'm sorry, I still don't know much about the Archoses, so I won't be _much_ help)

[akanie]

Thank you for your reply.

Actually I didn't partition the hard drive.  I only formatted.  Am I suppose to Partition the hard drive?  And if I am suppose to partition the drive, what do you mean by setting it as primary?  Thanks again!

[Bagder]

Yes, you should make sure that your drive has a single partition.

[akanie]

Thank you again for your response.

The thing is I formatted the HD and never partition it.  So it is in single partition and it is the primary drive.  So I am not sure what is the issue.  To double check, single partition means after formatting a HD, you don't need to do anything to it as it is one partition.  Thanks.

[Bagder]

No, you can still use a harddrive with no partition at all. That's the so called "superfloppy" mode. Rockbox does not like to be run in superfloppy mode.

[akanie]

thanks again for your help.

sorry with all these question.  how do you set a HD as a a primary drive?
i tried to do that in windows xp disk manager and when i did that i was unable to set it as primary.  then i got another HD and set it as the primary drive and put it in my archos player and it said HD error.  so i am having issues setting one HD as primary and issue with the other HD that i was able to set as primary partition because it gave me "HD error" when my i turn on my player.  thanks.