Hello again frozensoda
I tried your idea of using the hp format tool first and got some interesting results. Firstly, when I got to the low level initialization part the error message was different. It read:
Current Master Boot Record (MBR) may be corrupt. Do you want to replace it?
I said yes and proceeded as normal from there. I then did the right click format on the drive but the number was still the same, I formatted it anyway. I then went back to chkflsh to see what it thought was there. I got the same "big floppy" error as before but this time I answered no so I could see the partition table as it was without chkflsh erasing it. this is what the partition table showed:
partition table.jpg
So now I'm really confused. Should I just start over or what? Oh, and thank you very much for trying to help by finding a similar device and trying to figure it out, do you have a lot of these type of players? Anyway thanks again
meerkat8472