[millstonemike]

Hello,

I bought an 8 GB (so the offer said) 3rd Gen Nano replica. Actually, I bought 10 units direct from china. XP Explorer shows 8GB but the memory value is definately hacked.

I loaded a 1.3 GB music collection and when I browsed the flash drive using XP Eplorer, I noticed several folders (e.g., artist collections) had garbage in their directories.

I tried a couple of versions of the MP3 player disk utitilies (mentioned on MyMPXPlayer.org) and they all reported 4GB but refused to format the flash drive.

Then I tried the disk utilty that came with the player and used the low level format. It reformatted the drive to 1 GB and XP now sees a 1 GB drive. This would support the observations of corrupted files when I load the 1.3 GB of music.

If you received a utilility on the disk that came with the unit, reformat the drive (low level) and it may deliver an accurate drive size (and avoid corruptted files every time you overload the drive when Windows (et. al) is working on an artifically inflated drive size.

Regards,

Millstonemike