Dingoo A320 forum

Just repartitioned mine and had a quick play. All looks good.

Thanks again.

Well, I ended up doing the following:
1. Backed up everything on the internal memory to the hard disk of an XP computer
2. Booted the Gnuparted live CD
3. Deleted the existing partition
4. Formatted it as FAT32.
5. Connected it back to the XP computer and copied everything back on.
6. Tried to connect it to my Windows 7 computer

It still doesn't work for me. The computer makes the usb device connected sound, but then the dingoo locks up and nothing else happens.
Looks like I'll need to find another solution.

try fat16 jbmatson, use my instructions. first time i did it i tried manually and it worked fine. Second time i tried using gparted and it gave me all sorts of issues. So i ended up doing it manually again.

Don't try FAT16, the dingoo's drivers are incomplete so it crashes while trying to write to a FAT16 device, even though it can read it.

oops didn't realise that. my bad

Running fdisk on my dingoo gives me this:

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Disk /dev/sdb: 4139 MB, 4139778048 bytes
128 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7936 * 512 = 4063232 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6b736964

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   ?      214466      419798   814758329+  74  Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(288, 110, 36) logical=(214465, 70, 45)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(366, 104, 37) logical=(419797, 101, 29)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2   ?      167614      235530   269488144   65  Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(107, 121, 32) logical=(167613, 119, 47)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(10, 121, 13) logical=(235529, 37, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3   ?       67918      244123   699181456   53  OnTrack DM6 Aux3
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(67917, 1, 18)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(244122, 1, 49)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4   ?      492581      492589       32669+  bb  Boot Wizard hidden
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(65, 1, 0) logical=(492580, 59, 29)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(96, 0, 7) logical=(492588, 89, 19)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order


Should I kill it and repartition it as a single FAT32 disk?

Has anyone actually managed to fix the connectivity problems with Windows 7 RC (or Vista SP2) by deleting and re-creating the partition?

I've tried several times using different methods and I can't get it to make any difference. The Dingoo still locks up when I connect it to the Windows 7 computer, and the device shows up in Device Manager with a problem saying that the driver failed to start.

This is a real pain for me because I don't have easy access to a Windows XP machine at home, and I don't own a copy of VMWare to try that work around.

Does the Linux dual boot get around this problem?

if that doesn't work im not sure what the issue is. Provided teh structures right, e.g. a partition table with a single partition and it doesn't work then my theory is false. ALthough it did fix the issues i had with debian 5/gnomes automounter. I doubt linux dual boot wlil get around this problem, but i havnt looked into installing it. Has anyone got any idea what causes these issues? it doesn't affect me but im curious. lol.

@shadow: what your seeing there is the partition just on the device without a table. You should kill it as you said . On a side note, i bought my little sister a cheapo imitation ipod from dealextreme and it had the same annoying partition table structure.