Ricoh Aficio 2022SP

[tcypy1961]

Why would formatting the hard-drive on this Ricoh Aficio 2022SP fail if the hard-drive is good? Thank you for any help given.

[rosspt]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 2022SP

Format would fail if the original hdd has been replaced with one too large. Also would fail if the machine doesn't have a hdd to begin with. For this model, the hdd is an accessory.

[Iowatech]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 2022SP

Why would formatting the hard-drive on this Ricoh Aficio 2022SP fail if the hard-drive is good? Thank you for any help given.

Need more input - why do you need to format the drive?

[slimslob]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 2022SP

A PC is much more tolerant of bad clusters than an MFP. A PC will mark a cluster bad and add it to the redirection table which lows a rather large number of redirection entries. The only sectors on a PC are critical are the boot sector and the sector that contains the primary partition table. On a MFP, the format utility merely erases the existing directory structure and write a new one. It will not tolerate any errors in the directory structure. It will also tolerate a very number of entries in the redirection table.