help samsung memory reports wrong size

dailyroach · #1 (**permalink**) 29th Oct 2006, 1:38 am

according to information on this site the folowing chip

SAMSUNG 631 K9WAG08U1A

is supose to be 2gig

1. is this correct
2. if so is there a way to fix the changes made by mp3 player disk tools

it thinks its 474meg at the moment any help would be great ...

lattesurf · #2 (**permalink**) 29th Oct 2006, 1:00 am

dailyroach , yes the Samsung K9WAG08U1A is a 2 GigaByte memory chip.
Before formatting, go to the Partition and Encyption tab, and ensure that the slider is slide to min (left), and then format it. Probably certain parts of the memory is being encrypted.

dailyroach · #3 (**permalink**) 29th Oct 2006, 4:11 am

is there anything elce i have to do

everything i try always ends up with the wrong size

is there a step by step with more detailed instructions than the one already on the site

dailyroach · #4 (**permalink**) 29th Oct 2006, 8:38 pm

well... after being a tec for 6 years and solving countless naging computer problems

im finally stumped ...

i have played with the stupid software included with the player and allso the one off this site to get my 2 gig chip back to its true size

could it be the controller (hacked firmware)
could it be that windows xp is incompattable with a FAT partition
could it be that the stamp on the chip is fake too !!!!

god only knows ...

i think ill just buy a 30gig ipod video lol

lattesurf · #5 (**permalink**) 29th Oct 2006, 8:49 pm

dailyroach , i don't have a clue with your problem. You have tried all the tools mentioned and also tadad1's hacked chip recovery program. Maybe it has something to do with the initial memory hack when you 1st received the player, causing the MBR to be corrupted. Or simply it could be that the remaining "lost" MB are bad/damaged sectors. You might want to try a final attempt at scandisk, but i doubt it'll solve the problem.

dailyroach · #6 (**permalink**) 29th Oct 2006, 9:04 pm

thx for the reply maby it is a damaged mbr any clues on how to restore it as the guy i got it off has 4 more identical

admin · #7 (**permalink**) 30th Oct 2006, 4:09 am

dailyroach,

I wonder whether if the true size of your memory chip is actually a 512MB chip? That the "SAMSUNG 631 K9WAG08U1A" printing on the chip had been incorrectly stamped as saying "SAMSUNG 631 K9WAG08U1A" instead?

That might be possiblity.

Have you also tried formatting it through Windows Explorer as well just to double check?

The Disk Tool shouldn't 'break' anything in the memory as I haven't heard it doing so so far.

dailyroach · #8 (**permalink**) 30th Oct 2006, 11:31 pm

this also could be a fact the chips could be incorectly stamped because it is actually 100% stable runing with its 474meg partition now guess the only way to find out for shure is to contact samsung and find out if they have shiped a batch of wrongly stamped chips ....