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[Approach S2J SOLVED]
What happened:
I had formatted my Approach S2J flash drive and the Master Reset was not able to recreate the Garmin folder and the GarminDevice.xml file so I was unable to update via Garmin Express.
Since the Time Zone file and the Course file were missing from the flash drive, the time would not update to correct time zone and of course, the watch would not find any golf course.
What save the day:
I used several software to format the flash drive, but what worked was RMP, following the setting in the 1st post.
After the format, the watch successfully created the missing folder and file.
What remain to be improved:
The flash drive is 32MB but after the reformat, it is only 14.7MB
Still, I can load 1 of the 4 courses region but I will check how I can regain the missing space!
Anyway, Kudo to this formatting software & the developer
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10th October 2021, 11:55 AM #1Junior Member
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Are you sure in RMPrepUSB's GUI you had the partition size field in 1 set to "MAX" rather than that specific size in MB, also in field 4 selected radio button for FAT32 not FAT16. What does Windows Disk Management now show as its file format when you connect the Approach in Mass Storage Mode, also does it show a 14.7MB partition followed by unallocated space for example?
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10th October 2021, 02:22 PM #3Junior Member
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Yes, I did set to MAX but choose FAT16 (not FAT32)...That might be the reason for the smaller size.
PartitionWizard is showing an Unallocated partition
Spoiler: large pic
I tried to merge the two partition but PartitionWizard merges after converting to NTFS.
After merging using NTFS, PartitionWizard Free version does not give you the opportunity to revert to FAT and the watch would not see the file again.
So I reformat again to FAT using Windows Disk Management...And this time SUCCESS!
After the Master Reset (Off, Down key + ON, erase user data), the Garmin folder and the xml file were recreated.
I cannot explain why it worked this time, but it did.
I have now 29MB of available space, load the 3 regions and confirmed that everything is back to normal.
Thanks for taking the time to answer.Last edited by ChrisJP; 10th October 2021 at 02:33 PM.
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