Clear Partition; Clearing A Drive/Partition - Roland VS-2000 Owner's Manual

Clear Partition

You can erase, or "initialize," the contents of a single drive—a partition—to make room
for new projects. The PROJECT menu's Clear Partition operation performs this task.
Clearing a drive has no effect on fragmentation. Only backing up your projects and re-
formatting a hard drive can de-frag it.

Clearing a Drive/Partition

1. Hold down SHIFT and press F1 (PROJECT).
2. Select the drive you wish to clear.
3. If "ClrPrt" isn't visible above F3, press PAGE until it is.
4. Press F3 (ClrPrt)—the appears.
5. Set Surface Scan to:
6. Press F5 (OK). The VS-2000 asks if you're sure you want to clear selected drive:
7. Press ENTER/YES to clear the drive, or EXIT/NO to cancel.
8. If you want to proceed, press ENTER/YES. To cancel the operation, press EXIT/NO.
9. If you pressed ENTER/YES, the VS-2000 asks if you want to save any recent changes
10. Press ENTER/YES to save the project before clearing the drive, or EXIT/NO to
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• Off—to skip a check of the platter surface in the partition's area of the hard
drive during initialization.
• On—so that it checks the platter surface by performing an automatic read/write
test after initialization. This can take a while, but it's a good thing to do
periodically.
If you pressed ENTER/YES, the VS-2000 double-checks to make sure you want to
proceed, since you're about to wipe everything on the selected drive/partition.
to the currently loaded project.
proceed without doing so.
7—Project and Drive Operations
Information
about the
selected drive/
partition
Selected drive
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PROJECT menu
F3 (ClrPrt)
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