[renniw]

It seems I've joined the fake MP3 player club. I bought on eBay from mp3_exp what appears to be a fake 4Gb MP3 player. It worked OK storing up to 2Gb of data then corrupted the files as more data was added. I opened the player and found that it has the SAMSUNG 637 K9WAG08U1A memory chip which evidently is only 2GB in capacity according to the SAMSUNG web site.

It is formatted in Fat32 and reformatting in Windows still shows 4Gb rather than the true 2 Gb capacity. The format utility on the support CD does not work either, as it likely handles only FAT formatting. Nothing I've tried so far lets me format as a 2Gb chip in FAT format, as the storage size and format fields remain locked.

Is there a way to format this fake 4Gb Fat32 player so that it will report and support correctly the 2Gb of physical memory?

Thanks.