From 1 GB to 474 MB

[elChanga]

This is my problem:

my player shoulb be of 1g

but I´ve never been able to charge that amount of data.
at the beggining It appear on the computer as two different disks, I loaded the files in the one I could enter, cause the other one was with no format.
Half of the files I loaded worked right but when I tried to play the other half the player rebooted itself.
"how misterious!" I thought
then I started to delete those files that were corrupted (at least that`s what I thought!) but I could not.
How strange! I thought that time.
Suddenly without advice windows let me delete the files and I left the player empty.
I load songs again.
And something even stranger happened in one folder (the "record" one used to save the things you tape with the player) were all the songs again and again and again, it´s hard to explain, but I thought, IT MUST BE A VIRUS! EUREKA! so I decided to format the drive ... now the displays says that my memory is of 474 MB
Is it hacked? or I did something wrong?
when I use the encrypting tool it says that the memory is of 474 MB too
but before it said that it was of 969.780 MB (something like that)
anyway it´s a crap, can anybody tell me if this testdisk can help me?

to be honest this player is quite a headache

Is it a firmware problem or a chip problem?

Idon´t want to open the player cause I might be able to change it, so I can´t see the chip serial number, is there any other way to check the capacity without opening the player?

perhaps this testdisk thing?

hoping to get answers soon

I think this website is great, I´ve been reading stuff for about an hour and I´ve learned a lot

[elChanga]

Also the first time I connected it to a computer a strange virus advice jumped onto the screen

more information... maybe useless but who knows... you are the experts...

[princessanne1026]

Yup this is exactly what happened to mine. I received a new one in the mail from eBay seller powersellerturbo. It was advertised to be 1gb... and when I first hooked it up it said 998mb. Lo and behold, when I tried to load it to its full capacity, it kept restarting and giving me errors. Finally I followed the instructions taddad1 wrote in an old post somewhere on this site and formatted it using the mp3 disk tool to reveal its true capacity - 474mb. I was so mad to learn that my player was hacked! I mean, I only payed $38 bucks for it, so it's not the end of the world, but I still don't appreciate being lied to. I paid for 1gb, I want 1gb! I just e-mailed the seller asking for a partial refund of $15. I think that's more than reasonable, so we'll see how that goes.

[ZooL]

Welcome to the "scamed people club"!

check this : http://www.mympxplayer.org/my-fake-4...ngs-vt424.html

For me, i should have a 4GB wich is only a 1GB, argh....