[martynh1]

Hi

I purchased an 8GB player from Hong Kong (before finding this site and the fact it was on 1gb !!!)

The player would not charge up from the mains or the USB port of the computer. Initially Vista only recognised one drive (7gb plus) but then 'found' another of 250 mb.

Prior to that I had tried to remove the hack but whilst the drive was seen by the computer it would not allow formatting via the MP3 tool programme

It asked me to format the drive - I did - big mistake - I got an error and now the player hangs at the start up with a blue screen and the egg timer.

I have managed to short it and get it recognised as an ADUF drive. However when I want to flash the firmware the MP3 tools software tells me it is waiting for a device to be connected (it already is). I do not get a message telling me that the palyer is in reset mode.

It then stops responding.

Is there something else I should be doing ? or have I reached the end of the road - took me several hours to get this far.