Not to sound negative on my first post but....I can't help but wonder how many perfectly good MP3 players have been rendered useless because folks listen to folks on this forum and other forums like it. I also "almost" managed to ruin a couple of the 16GB (yes...they are indeed 16GB....14.7GB worth of data written to the units then the write was verified) 4'th gen Chipods by following advise on this and other forums. None....I repeat....absolutely none of the tools offered here helped me in the recovery of the two units I almost ruined. Good luck folks