The latest installment in my bungling attempts to create a 320G DMS. I purchased a WD 320G drive, put it in my DMS case, opened DMS Tools, checked the "install non-hacked firmware" button and then clicked on "create new DMS". Looked to be formatting the disk for a few minutes, so I went away, came back and it "failed to create DMS". Opened explorer and there is a PHTDATA drive, but no PHTSYS drive.
How horribly off base am I?
Take a look at the log files, in (My) Documents\PhatHack Media Manager\Logs. There'll be one for the New DMS process. Have a scroll through and see if there was a failure creating the PHTSYS partition, or formatting it.
Which operating system are you using?
I'm using XP. I've attached the log file, which seems to indicate formatting failure for both partitions.
For some reason the program thinks that PHTSYS is 0 bytes, which has something to do with it.
Try again, possibly after a reboot.
Second attempt appears to have worked. Thanks!
ALthough it appears I have managed to create a new DMS, it also appears that I made a boo-boo and wiped out all of my tunes on the external HD plugged into my computer and, worse, created a PHTDTA partition that takes up all but 63GB on the drive. Can someone point me to an idiot's guide to re-formatting that drive so I can store more than 63gigs of music on it? :-[
Thanks.
Er, the external HD is your Phatbox disk or not?
Yes, I apparently attempted to format an external HD as my DMS. :P
Wiped out my music collection in the process, but I got the HD reformatted and have begun ripping music to it.
Moral: pay attention to what you're doing. 8)