[Solved] Extra Drive?

[lattesurf]

Hi all, just received my MP4 player last week. Supposed to be a 4GB player, but turned out to be a hacked 2GB Samsung K9WAG08U1-A (i opened my player to check on the chip number after i found this forum).

But anyway, the problem is after i've flashed the player with the firmware i edited from my dump.bin, and let my computer re-detect the player, my computer now shows 2 drive letters (F & G) rather than 1 drive letter (F) originally.

The F-drive still contains all the things that were copied in initially and shows the "4GB", and the G-drive is now a RAW file system.

What is this RAW G-drive?

[tadad1]

lattesurf, Try going to Settings\Online Mode and make sure it is set to normal.

[lattesurf]

Cool! It's back to just the original drive.
Thanks tadad1!

Cheers

[altean]

you should only have one drive no matter what.you need to get rid of the other one.
load the mp3 utilities Disk manager then set the Partition and encrypt tab max. format it. now set it back to none and format it again and it should be yer real memory size.
actually this tip was submitted by someone on this site i think.
good luck

[lattesurf]

Originally Posted by altean";p=&quot

you should only have one drive no matter what.you need to get rid of the other one.
load the mp3 utilities Disk manager then set the Partition and encrypt tab max. format it. now set it back to none and format it again and it should be yer real memory size.
actually this tip was submitted by someone on this site i think.
good luck

altean, you mentioned that i should set the Partition and Encrypt tab to max 1st and format it, followed by repeating the same steps and now setting the Partition and Encrypt tab to none (ie. 0MB?).

What does this extra step of setting it to max do? i've read a couple of other posts and tadad1 did not add in the additional step of formatting with max 1st.

Anyway, i've connected my player and started the disk tool, under the Partition and Encrypt tab, it displays in the Partition section: "Disk Tool Capacity 1951MB". So most probably it is a hacked 2GB chip?

[lattesurf]

Reformatted my "4GB" player, now is currently 2GB, which matches the chip serial number i found.

A point to note, i tried formatting with the Disk Tool with the Partition and Encrypt tab to minimum, and there was an error message of "Not Supporting This Disk Type". Next i tried sliding it to maximum, was able to format and ended up with about 17.8MB (which was the non-encrypted memory). Finally i slided to minimum again and format, and its back to 2GB.
So altean's method worked for my case.

Although my "4GB" ended up as 2GB, still i consider myself to be lucky as many others in this forum ended up with 512MB or 256MB.

hi to all... suprised to find people like me who have actually bought this thing and encountered problems... well i have the same chipod player with specifications:
sc85051c
act_v3.5.35
2006/03/29
memory : 512mb (as claimed by seller)
now when i loaded music on to it along with videos.... after reaching little more than half its capacity it started showing format error for the video files (only for ones loaded after half its capacity)and started restarting for mp3 ones(same case).
i formatted the damn thing (in fat format)and reload everything but in vain... same thing persists.... kindly help.... do i need firmware upgrade?

[tadad1]

shummi16,
"Format Error" warnings when playing amv files can generally be fixed by dropping the frame rate to medium when converting your amv's

If you are concerned about your chips size do a double format with MP3 Player Disk Tool where you go to the Partition Encrypt tab and move slider all the way right and format then move it all the way left again and format again.