Disk management – Tascam DP-01FX/CD User Manual

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Disk management

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Disk management

Formatting and re-
partitioning are

“destructive” actions. You cannot
undo them, and the changes are
permanent.

The DP-01 allows you format and re-partition the internal hard disk
to suit your needs.

The DP 01’s hard disk is divided into partitions. Songs can be created on a
partition and moved to another one later for archive purposes, etc., or you
can use different partitions for different types of songs.

The FAT format
(File Allocation

Table) is a disk format which can be
read by all personal computers.

In addition to the song partitions, there is also a FAT formatted partition.
This is the part of the hard disk that can be read by a personal computer
when the DP 01 is connected using USB. Whenever you want to archive or
store a song on a computer, export a mix to a computer, or import an audio
file for inclusion in a song, the data must be copied in two operations, copy
ing first to the FAT partition and then from there to your computer.

Selecting the active partition

Choose the active partition, from which you can load existing songs
and on which you can create new songs, etc.

1

Press

MENU

and select the

DISK

menu.

2

Select the

PARTITION

action and press the



key.

You cannot select
the FAT partition

here.

An arrow () shows the active partition. The sizes of the partitions
are shown (not the available space).

3

Move the cursor ( ) to the partition to make it active and press

ENTER

.

The DP-01 stores the current song, loads the current song on the new
partition and shows a series of messages about the progress of the
operation.

Formatting a disk

This destroys all
data on the entire

disk. You cannot undo it. ONLY
CARRY OUT THIS OPERATION IF
YOU ARE SURE THIS IS WHAT
YOU REALLY WANT TO DO.

As well as formatting the internal hard disk, you can set the size of
the DP-01 native partitions.

1

Press

MENU

and select the

DISK

menu.

The disk size
shown on the dis-

play may vary from the example
given here.

2

Select the

FORMAT

action and press the



key.

3

Use the jog wheel to select the size of the partitions (32, 16, 8 or 4
gigabytes—1 gigabyte is 1024 megabytes).

All partitions will be the same size, except the last one, which will be
the size of the remaining space.

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