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Completely removing all traces of rockbox
cormie:
Febs the new thread I started was more of how to completely restart as opposed to fixing a problem but fair enough.
thanks for the suggestions everyone but I've tried all that and it didn't work, I didn't do a format or anything so I'm just wondering how do I go about completely starting again. Even if I have to wipe my HD, that's fine, I have all the files elsewhere anyway.
See I wont be able to clear the settings unless rockbox is still on the player, so I just want to format the whole thing and start again. Just wondering what the best way around that is.
Febs:
How many times are you going to ask the same question? Bluebrother explained this to you in the third post of this thread.
USE THE FORMAT FUNCTION OF THE ORIGINAL FIRMWARE!
--- Quote from: bluebrother ---- backup all your music from your player
- format the player, maybe using the format feature of the OF (windows can't format drives larger than 32 GB with FAT)
- flash your player with a original firmware -- either a patched or a vanilla one
- now you should have the OF running again. If you installed a patched OF you may want to reinstall Rockbox
- put your files back ... and hope it won't happen again. If it does I fear this to be hardware related.
--- End quote ---
And THAT is why I merged the two threads. I want people reading this thread to know that your question has already been answered before they spend their time duplicating someone else's effort.
cormie:
Hi Febs,
yeah, I saw that, but the reply straight after that post just really complicated things for me as I don't have a clue about all that code stuff at the end of this message:
--- Quote from: pabouk on October 04, 2006, 12:45:31 PM ---The procedure described by bluebrother does not erase all the Rockbox history! The Rockobox settings are stored outside the disk partition and format does not erase them.
You have to:
a) Erase the settings after installing Rockbox again.
or
b) Erase the sector with the setings (it is the last but one sector on the first track of the HDD). You can also erase the whole disk:
--- Code: ---cat /dev/sda
--- End code ---
(replace /dev/sda by actual location of your iriver's HDD) and then repartition it again using fdisk.
--- End quote ---
So I'm wondering is there any way to just completely remove rockbox settings and everything else on the HD at the same time instead of having to wait until I reinstall rockbox to delete the rockbox settings and have the Hard Drive as if it was just brand new with no trace of rockbox or anything on it, and then reinstall the H140 firmware and start fresh.
:)
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: cormie on October 30, 2006, 03:56:23 AM ---So I'm wondering is there any way to just completely remove rockbox settings and everything else on the HD at the same time instead of having to wait until I reinstall rockbox to delete the rockbox settings and have the Hard Drive as if it was just brand new with no trace of rockbox or anything on it, and then reinstall the H140 firmware and start fresh.
--- End quote ---
write garbage to the complete disk.
--- Code: ---dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
--- End code ---
(of course you need to replace the device /dev/sda with your correct device. You can also replace /dev/random by /dev/zero, then you'll overwrite everything with zero-bytes.)
This procedure kills the *complete* disk data, including partition informations, boot records and so on. Which means you need to repartition and reformat the drive afterwards.
cormie:
hehe, ok, that's the part I was looking for a step by step guide to because it sounds very complicated and I don't have a clue. I don't even know what to do with all them /dev/ things, where I do them or when I do them :P
And of course then how would I go about putting the iRiver firmware back on it so I'm not just left with a totally empty HD that I can't do anything with :D
Oh and what do you mean about write garbage to the complete disc?
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