I then plug the drive in an identical bay I have mounted in my Pro Tools PC, and transfer the files to the internal drives, or work off the removable one, it depends. I have several drives in removable trays (pretty small sizes compared to today standards, 40, 60 80Gb) that I use for each project I record. I pretty much did as you suggested up to now. Once you get to the DOS prompt start FDisk and format the drive that you need formated-make EXTRA sure it's the right drive.īTW, what does the USB connection on the back of the SDR do? can you use it to transfer files to a PC? If you can find a Win98, or WinME boot disc, load it up, and boot to the disc.
Another option is to start from a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk and use the Format tool included on the disk. If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup. You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. I THINK, that if you have a drive larger than 32GB in FAT32, then Windows will still see the drive. The SDR SHOULD have some kind of drive format utility. The SDR has a bunch of digital and analog outputs, you could I guess rerecord everything from the SDR into Protools using the adat optical I/O, though, I guess if you recorded everything on the SDR at 96k, then that isn't an option as the 002/R will only accept ADAT at 48k. Only repartition and reformat is you don't have anything on the drives that you want to save. If you already have stuff on the drives in the SDR, then do not format them, you'll loose everything.