After having tried various sequences including the ones described in this thread I am no nearer to getting the things working again!
I can get a 2 drive scenario with one saying 15.9Gb but NOT appearing on the Memory Info on the player but DOES appear in My Computer along with the 17Mb drive which appears on the player as well.
Setting the partition to various different sizes from 2Gb to 8Gb yields various other strange results including messages from windows saying the device needs formatting!
One thing I tried was the HP USB format util which is useful for flash drives etc but this gave even stranger results!
See here for screen shots (sorry dont know how to put them directly on here)
2shared - download mp3player fault.rtf
As you can see the system files are visible but only AFTER formatting that drive! Weird!
Seems to be using a version of DOS 5.0 (which was always crap as I remember ) and curiously there is an NTLDR file which would seem to indicate NT/XP etc.
The total of the files in that folder (which seem totally inaccessible to windows) is about 12Gb curiously.
So its a deep mystery what is actually going on here but it does not sound too healthy.
ian
