Possible to format S9?

[trevelyan624]

Is there anyway to format the S9 without screwing it up? I have a old iAudio X5, which needed software which would do it, is there anything available like that for the S9?

[Dalmane98]

Page 40 of the Cowon S9 manual...

Connect your S9 to your computer and Format as FAT32 File System...

AFAIK, the same applies to the iAudio X5.

[trevelyan624]

I thought I read in another thread that if you format through windows you lose the drivers and the player won't start up, things like that?

[Dalmane98]

I would assume that Cowon knows what their talking about...

Why do you need to format your S9???

You could try the Panasonic SDFormatter (http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html) tool if you trust them more. I have not tried it on an S9, so use it at your own risk.

Please post a link to that thread you mentioned...

EDIT: If you just want to reset everything to the factory defaults, just delete the param.cfg file in the system folder...

[Headcased]

yes, it fine to format you can not use fat as the flash size is too big for that file system. as for the sd tool whouldnt bother fine for sd cards