I have a 16GB MP4 (nano style) player with Camera, voice record, etc. Very nice for £12, but it has hacked memory. The true memory is around 4GB and yes I bought it on Ebay. So accepting that it is actually only 4GB I wanted to find a way to prevent writing to the non existent memory past 4GB (when all the problems start). I used H2testW 1.4 to show the true capacity and then used Minitool Partition wizard (free home ware) to reduce the partition to this size (leaving the rest unallocated). The MP4 player still reports the old capacity, but reports only the new partition size as free space. You can reformat this new partition size in windows without destroying it (the player rewrites the key directories when turned on).
I do not know why you can’t do this in XP with disk manager, and “MP3 Player Utilities” didn't work for me (wouldn't allow) or why most disk checkers (surface readers) report no issues with the memory (that isn’t there!)? But this has made the players very usable and stable. You will have to play with the partition size and check with H2TestW to get the partition size right, unless your good at converting size reported in bytes, Mb, MB and Gb etc.
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