Vsr 880

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I'm looking for a little help getting started in the digital hard drive format. First of all, can anyone tell me on the VSR 880 how to reclaim used hard drive space? I've recorded nothing I care to keep, only a few seconds of tests, but it seems to have drastically reduced the available minutes of recording time from the 500s to the 190s, or so. Moreover, I initialized the disk in the effort to reclaim, and I believe I lost that awesome demo song that comes with the unit. I think its called Spiderweb or something. Anyway, how can I be 100% sure either way, if I lost or if I can somehow find it on the hard drive? The only reason I care is I assume if I get it back, I'm basically going to get the hard drive back to the condition it was in when I opened the box. The manuals linguistically seem like they were transcribed by a computer from Chinese or something to English and I'm not making too much sense of them. (I'm basically used to tape based reel to reel and this is all foreign to me.) I believe I have partitioned the drives correctly, AFTER initializing the disk, however. With these, or any other issues, can anyone post any advise for me?
 
The demo song is gone,when you use disk initialize it erases everything across ALL PARTITIONS so only use that when tnhere is nothing on the 880 that you want to keep.Instead use the song erase function.The manual is confusing although I still need to refer to it things are becoming clearer.For any help that you need go to www.vsplanet.com ,there are a lot of helpful people there some of whom(unlike me)have had years of ex[perience with there machines.Good luck and keep at it as I think the VSR is an excellent unit for the money.
 
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Thanks Randy. Looks like the Patriots are in and my Eagles are gone...
I'm visting VS Planet. I'm also curious if there is some way to reclaim unused hard drive space. If initializing the unit erases, why does the available time not simultaneously increase? That's one more I'm trying to figure out. Would there not be some process to increase available hard drive space since that issue is so keen on the minds of these Roland user manual writers? Thanks for the help.
DE
 
I'm an idiot...

Figured out on the VSR 800 question I posted. Thanks Randy Yell for your help.
I simply needed to re initialize that one partition and it did, in fact, take the available recording time back to normal.

Thanks as well, for the new BBS. It is a big help to have it. Though I was obviously the newbie geek on the block when I posted yesterday. Ha! Love it.

Ems.
 
Anytime my friend,the planet is a very cool place and a hell of a resource for people like us.If you want to read about user stupidity,read my "What A Bonehead" thread in the 880 forum.See ya on the planet!!
 
Thanks for the VS suggestion

Thanks for the VS suggestion.

Cheers Alan
 
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