thanks for the guide but for all those that can still see the hardware partiton try this before opening the player, its a way to get to the hidden partiton without opening it
http://www.mp4nation.net/forum/viewt...hp?f=43&t=8488
now with your player mac_gyver, i have the same one and it loses the firmware partition randomly
, what i do now is in the rkupdate tool folder you will see a small file called setup.rkw, i have now copied this to the root of the main memory of the player, now when the player dies (as it does often) i plug the player in and it instantly gets recognized now and windows sees the hidden partition but its dead and it asks me to format it, i do and the partition is then alive for me to copy back up files on, also i have the rkusb,tag ffile on the player also
this no means i can be up and running in no time at all if the firmware dies again (and again), take alll of 2 mins
so, copy that little file over to the player and leave it there, it wont mess with things, only when the player partiton is dead
cheers