Formatting A Drive - Boss BR-1180 User Manual

To recover song data from a CD:
1) Press DATA/SAVE LOAD.
2) CURSOR to RECOVER and then press ENTER.
3) CURSOR to SONG and then press ENTER.
4) CURSOR to each song that you want to recover back onto the hard drive and
press ENTER.
5) CURSOR to GO then press ENTER.

3-Formatting a Drive.

When a drive has been freshly initialized, a hard disk recorder writes each file's data as a
single chunk in one area of the drive. As the drive gets used the areas of free space for
writing new data become smaller and smaller and are scattered all over the drive. A drive
in this condition is considered to be "fragmented." As the drive becomes more and more
fragmented it becomes difficult to access data and can ultimately lead to errors.
Typical symptoms of a severely fragmented drive include sluggish transport controls,
"Drive Busy" messages and eventually the inability to read and write data to the hard
drive or to CD.
To prevent fragmentation backup your songs and initialize your hard drive every couple
of months or so depending on how much recording that you do. Once the drive has been
initialized recover your songs back onto the hard drive
To Initialize (format) the BR-1180's hard drive:
1) Press UTILITY.
2) CURSOR to HDD.
3) Press ENTER.
4) CURSOR to HDD:INITIALIZE
5) Press ENTER.
6) CURSOR to GO
7) Press ENTER two times.
Note: Initializing will erase the contents of you hard drive. Make sure that you are
backed up before you begin this process.
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