terceslil, you saved my player! One thing I don't know if you have experimented with....The "fake" drive of approximately 6gb can be formatted the same way. Set the player to Multi drive on the online settings, and do the same thing for the fake drive as you did for the real drive. This has given me an mp3/video/FM player with an extra USB storage drive. I haven't filled it to capacity...I'm only using about 300mb of it, actually..so I don't know if the full 6gb will work or not, but it works so far!