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Old 6th Jan 2007, 7:40 pm
michiganjfrog michiganjfrog is offline
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Default Re: Shame on you, Uxcell!

There's only one way I know of to really tell. Did you do a double low level format using the mp3 utility with an encrypt/partition pass, as described in the hacked player thread?


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Originally Posted by Kinkell";p=&quot View Post
I'm disappointed that Uxcell is also doing what the eBay MP4 size scammers are doing.
In most respects, the Osmium is a great little player which I'm pretty happy with - except the memory size is misrepresented by a hacked partition table and careful product descriptions. Conventionally, 2GB is 2 GigaBytes, but in this case it's actually 2 GigaBits.
The 2GB Osmium I bought shows as 2 GigaBytes capacity as a USB drive in Windows, but the real capacity is actually 228 MegaBytes.
With the original partition table, storing more data than 230 megabytes overwrites existing files and corrupts them.

Uxcell have offered to replace it, but the end result will be the same. It's not faulty - just not what was excpected from the product descriptions.

Does anyone else have an Osmium that will store 2 GigaBytes of data?
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