AK2025 FW ver 9.5.54 Disk Error
 

It was on the old forums but it never got a solution and died out. Did that same thing the original poster did and screwed up pretty badly it seems.

AK2025 FW ver 9.5.54 Disk Error <--- the original thread.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Create a single partition on the device which is slightly less than 8GB (7.8GB to be safe).

How would I go about making the partition? Never really needed to do it before so I never learned how.

and Thanks for the reply.

Hello? Is there anybody out there?

Alrighty so I found it out on my own. Using the link below just follow the steps then reformat. Works fine now. Posting in case anyone else has this problem.

BootIt – Lexar USB Flip the Removable Media Bit Tool | Portable USB Pen Drive Applications

I downloaded the utility, but it still won't format my mp4 player. What did you do?

My player was working fine until I got curious and tried to reformat it, using the HP formatter.
*kicking myself in the ass*

Open up the bootit program then select the drive letter for your mp4. Then click the flip removable bit.
I tried it again and it was a little bit of a pain in the ass. You may need to click the format button in bootit. bootit always crashes on me when I do this then I flip the bit and format it. Just mess around with it until you get the format to go.

I messed around with it for a while, I finally ended up erasing all the partitions with Paragon by accident... Then I had to use the HP utility to format it again in a way that the BootIt program and the mp4 utilities program would recognize it. I eventually went into the mp4 disk tool thing and started messing with the re-format and partition tools. Like you, it would only work if I formatted the 'normal' space to about 17mb. I messed around in BootIt some more, but that didn't help, so I went back into the format tool and started playing with the re-partitioning thing. I found that I can get it to work just fine, unless I format it's normal space bigger than about 1gb, so I'm thinking I might have a 1gb player.

I have the same chipset and firmware as you, but I haven't cracked it open to look at the actual chip yet, so I'm not sure if it's real memory or not. Sure seems hacked to me...
I guess i'll just keep trying.

thanks for your help

It just started working again, for some reason. I think I might have downloaded a different version of the mp4 player tools when I was trying to find a decent AMV coverter yesterday, maybe that's what did it? I don't know. But it's recognizing all 8gb again... no clue if it's actually 8 or not, but still.

I did notice that in BootIt, it shows up as a 1.8gb drive. Maybe the chip is a hacked 2gb? I guess i'll just have to copy a bunch of crap to it and see what ends up corrupted. :)

For anyone else that had this problem, I used mp4 player utilities or tools or whatever version 4.0

I bought this thing because I wanted to replace my FrankenH10, my little Iriver that i made from a bunch of broken things. So, it made sense to copy all 5gb of stuff I had on there to the new one, which I'm trying right now. I wasn't going to post until I was done, but it says it's going to take 3 hours, so I'll just leave it for a while, I guess. I still think it's hacked - I'm gonna put money on 2gb-4gb.

Hinro, how did you verify that yours had 8gb on it?
(just out of curiosity, cuz whatever I did didn't tell me anything except that I don't know how these players work XD)