[/u]I am giving a try..[b].

ok1, I have used testdisk to write a new boot sector to all of my players and it has had no effect on the firmware on any of them. I am not sure what is causing this problem for you but I my first thought was the disk may be encrypted so I suggest using the MP3 Disk Tools Partition Encrypt feature to rebuild the partition then give it a format.

Hi Iam probably being a bit thick here but I bought a hacked player off ebay and have followed your instructions. Where do I find the MP3 player disk tool?

thanks for any help

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Hello.
Yesterday I formatted the player using Disk Utility Tool and set the encryption disk capacity to MAXIMUM (and the clicked start).
This was probably a mistake.

Now I have only 46 MB available.
How can I fix it (the player is actually 4 GBIT or 512 MB) ?

PLEASE help me, cause I badly need the player with its actual capacity?

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my player has the following chip

K9WAG08U1A

reported as without a doubt 2gig

when i tryed to recover it using these instructions to-2gig from its incorect size 4gig

it now thinks its actually 474.93meg

can i recover it to 2gig

i think a few people have had this /similar problem and a step by step is needed

dubiousjake, The MP3 Player Disk Tool is part of MP3 Player Utilities along wiyh the AMV Converter you will find several versions in the Downloads>Tools section.

alxndr, In the Partition Encrypt tab move the slider all the way left and press start.

dailyroach, The K9WAG08U1A is definatly 2GB so I am unsure what has happened. Could you run testdisk and use the Analyse option and take a screenshot of the information displayed and post it.
As for step by step I have included an image and outline for each step in the walkthrough there is nothing else I can add.

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tadad1: Thank you for replying, but my problem seems to be unsolvable.

Yesterday I set the Encrypt capacity to MAX and clicked START, then again to MIN and formatted again.
And now my memory remained 46 MB, I tried different format methods, but its always detected as 46 MB, and so many are available for uploading Mp3s... :(

I cant handle this, yesterday the player was detected as 4 Gbit (512 MB) and now always as 46 MB.

How is it possible, obviously its not a hardware issue? :(

alxndr, What size does testdisk read your player as?