Just got a 3G Nano clone in the mail yesterday (purchased from eBay); claims to be 8gb. Immediately loaded it up with music and some quickly-converted amv files, and was surprisingly pleased. Decided to load it up with even more stuff this morning (pushing it beyond 2gig stored), and files corrupted. I shrugged it off, since I knew that's what I was most likely getting into anyway. So, I formatted, dropped music on there again, just to make sure before I tried to unhack it. Sure enough, after 2gig, files corrupted again.
Now, here's where it gets interesting: I decided to go ahead and attempt to unhack it after getting the "Disk empty!" message on my player, and files were corrupted when exploring in Windows. I followed
the tutorial, skipping step 4 (
SYS TOOLS >> MEMORY INFO showed 0%); when I checked properties in Windows following these steps, my player STILL shows 7.9gb storage (weird, but not impossible, I suppose).
So, I copy some files back over to the player (which, from what little I've tested so far, seems to hold over 2gb just fine); when I attempt to go into the music player, I get a "Disk error!" message; same with Videos, Record, Photos, and ebook. Games and Radio still work fine, however. After this initial test, I again removed all files, formatted, and only put 1 mp3 on the player (to determine if there was a memory issue of some sort), to which I still get the same error.
My questions:
1) Is there any reason, beyond being a genuine 8gb player, why, even after partitioning and reformatting, Windows would still show the device to be 8gb?
2) 8gig or not, I want my player back. Even if it's only 2gigs, it sounds a hell of a lot better than my old mp3 player, and looks sweet. How can I get it back fully functional?
Any assistance at all would be greatly appreciated.