Thread: New H2O - Format Disc error with Calibre
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Old 10-14-2014, 05:53 AM   #20
davidfor
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
i agree with all the folk saying get it replaced.

but so that we understand. the area that windows says is corrupt is the area where kobo stores the books & the database stuff. the firmware is on a different partition? and is also in a protected area on the device from where it it restored at factory reset ?
The Kobo devices have three partitions. One holds the OS, the next is the recovery partition and the last has the books. The last is the only partition presented to the PC when you connect.
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1> formatting the drive followed by factory reset is a possible repair route, valid say for an out of warranty device. Sometimes when a drive is formatted and disc-checked, the bad sectors are flagged & the rest of the drive is useable.
Yes, formatting it might mark the bad sectors so they don't get used. Though I don't know how this type of memory works.
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2> it is likely that there IS drive corruption ( windows does not usually lie about these things) but its not yet affecting the part of the drive which Kobo is currently using, because the OP can still download & read books ?
I think Windows is a bit more strict on this. There have been other reports of no problems using the device or connecting to a Linux PC or a MAC. But, Windows complains like this.
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3> any such drive shoudl be formatted to what - FAT32 ? or NTFS ?
FAT32. You can change a file in the firmware and use EXT3 or EXT4 if you want, but I don't think that NTFS support is installed.
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