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Thanks for your help so far. If I can explain a bit better what happened now I understand it myself.

I bought a Chinese iPod clone called the Tecknet V70 MP3/4 player with 1 gig memory from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. It had good reviews on Amazon but mostly from people who already had iPods and recommended it for newbies. On the Amazon description it says it supports the following music formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV also the music for movie files (WMA format, Windows Media Video).

I have a Compaq Presario PC running XP Professional. It has a CD and DVD reader/writers and an external HD. I use the external HD to store pictures and music including MP3 tracks. I download MP3 tracks in MP3 audio file format usually, from record companies and stars websites.

I also download tracks from Napster which I buy (I have a Napster account) and use to burn CDs. These are in Windows Media Audio file format. I can play all the formats through my PCs speakers and the Napster download work fine and I cannburn CDs OK. I bought the MPx player because I wanted to save and play my MP3 tracks when I was out of the house.

I couldn't understand the MPx user guide which came with it (an unintelligible translation from Chinese) but I managed to copy and paste some MP3 tracks from my eextdrnal HD onto the MPx player . That worked. (I even downloaded a .jpg).

Then I thought I would try and copy and paste some more. So the second time round I copied and pasted a mixture of MP3 audio file format tracks AND Windows Media Audio files (the Napster downloads). I was copying and pasting these from my external hard drive when the MP3 player crashed.

In the course of copying about the 15th track, a Window Media audio file, the system stopped working and I got an error message "Cannot copy (song name) the directory or file cannot be created."

When I looked at the Music option on the MPx to see how many tracks I had stored so far the answer was none. The message said Empty Disk. All the previous tracks I had stored had gone and so had the copies I had made up to that point.

There is a CD with the player, which contains some software although no instructions on how to use it. It has folders called AMV, Drivers for Windows 98 players and Windows Media Player 9.

Which of these should I install and how? The AMV folder contains subfolders called INstMsiA and InstMisw plus several other files all starting with Msi -xxx. Do I just click on each one in turn to install it? Should I do anything else? Will this allow me to copy over Windows Media Audio, once I have managed to reformat the MP3 player - if I do.

I am a bit worried that reformatting the MP player will lose everything else on it including the firmware (which runs Music, Movies, Pictures, Voice etc)

Can you reassure me that reformatting won't affect those options as if so I would have no idea what to do next.

Thanks

Rockette. :roll: