Topic: iRiver hard drive questions

[jonohull]

Ok, I bought a used h120 on eBay, and first off, the battery was dead. I'll buy a new one. I used it at a show, and plugged it in to the wall. For the first set I used line-in from my UA-5, and it was all good. For the second set, I used optical in, and it was going well until someone tripped my cord, and it shut off. I got it back on and kept going. When I got home and tried to copy files to my compy, it said it can't copy the files over. I eventually got some copied to the hard drive, but with clicks during playback. This was all on XP.

Then I tried copying the files to my Vista machine. It took a loooong time, but they all copied over. There aren't as many clicks that are in the XP copy. The file that was recording when the power cut out won't play.
Edit:  I forgot to say, I copied a movie file that was 1.3gb from my XP box to my Vista box without problems.

So, my questions:

Is my hard drive corrupt in any way, or will a reformat fix it from the power outage?
Can I fix that file with the wav header utility?

[stantheman1976]

The file that got cut off probably just has a corrupt header.  I recorded a wedding with the groom wired with omni lapel to H120 and forgot I had pushed the Hold button and reset the machine.  I had to use Audacity to open and repair the file and it worked fine.  I doubt you should have to reformat the drive but if you want to do so it wouldn't hurt.

[sunjan]

Is my hard drive corrupt in any way, or will a reformat fix it from the power outage?

Like Stan said, a reformat wouldn't hurt, you never know what the previous owner did to the HD.
There are also some disk tools in Rockbox that can clean up junk files and defrag for a start, if you don't feel like reformatting yet.

[jonohull]

Thanks for your responses, guys. I think I'll reformat. What's the best way to test if the hard drive works without taping a show and finding out later it doesn't?

[sunjan]

Thanks for your responses, guys. I think I'll reformat. What's the best way to test if the hard drive works without taping a show and finding out later it doesn't?

Tape some dummy music from your stereo at home.
And while you have the iriver connected to your PC, you can use any third-party drive maintenance tools to verify its integrity, take your pick!