Cannot copy and Empty Disk message displaying.

[rockette]

As a newbie, I successfully copied half a dozen MP3 tracks from the hard disk of my PC onto my PM clone player the other day. I was copying some more tracks tonight and had done about 20 (or so I thought) - there were no error messages and they seemed to be copying over all right.

Suddenly I started getting a message saying "Cannot copy (song name) the directory or file cannot be created."

I checked the tracks were OK on my PC which they were so I wondered if my MP battery was flat and I recharged it. I have now turned it back and set it to Music Mode and it just displays a message saying Empty Disk. The few tracks I had already downloaded have vanished...I have tried to copy over some more tracks but continue to get the Cannot copy message described above.

Can anyone suggest what has happened and what to do next?

Roxette

[_Odyssey]

Hi Roxette, it sounds like a memory corruption of sorts... what was/is the players memory capacity?

The first thing i would do is format the player using the Mp3 Player Disk Manager utility. If it refuses (it might) to format, use windows Check Disk to check for and repair any errors then try formatting it again.

Let us know how it goes

[rockette]

It is a 1gig player and had no other stuff on it at the time, apart from a few MP3 music tracks. It happened when I was downloading using Windows WMV - and I see someone else had a problem with this on this forum.

Is this a Miscrosoft issue or a faulty MP3 player do you think?

What is the best way to format it now? I do have a software disk with it but its a pretty unintelligble one. It's a shame really this happened as I thought I was starting to get the hang of it.

Rockette

[_Odyssey]

Hi, If you have the disc that came with the player, install the programs from it and format it from the Mp3 Disk Tool.. or... another way that works for me is plug the mp3 player into the computer, right click on the icon in My Computer and select Tools > Format Disk

This has happened to a friend while she was using Windows Media Player. It's really a Microsoft issue. Windows Media Player sync is usually not the best way to put music on your player. Just create your folders, and copy and paste your music from your hard drive to your mp3 player.

[rockette]

If only it were quite that simple. I was in fact copying MP3 tracks from my hard drive - where I had stored them - to the MP player when it happened.

I have various MP3 format tracks on the hard drive of my PC. Some are downloads from Napster (paid for), some are "free samples" from artists and record company web sites, some came via from YouSendIt from a friend.

I did not use any special formatting at the time I downloaded and saved then, just saved them in whatever format they were in on the web.

Is it the Napster tracks which are in .wmv format? If so are they basically not downloadable to an MP3 clone? That would be disappointing as I paid for them. I do have an iTunes account. Maybe I should use that instead?

On the CD which came with the MP4 player are the following folders: AMV driver, Driver for Windows 98 and Windows Media Player 9. I assume it it this last folder (Windows Media Player) I should install to format the hard drive on the player.

There are no instructions on the CD or in the user guide on how to do this. Contents of the Windows Media Player folder are BDA, BDANT, BDAXP, DirectX, DSETUP.dll, dsetup32.dll, dxnt, dxsetup, ManagedDX, mdxvedist.

Any suggestions on what I do with these.

Rockette :roll: :cry:

[_Odyssey]

wmv format ? thats wierd.. that would mean 'yes' it's playable in a windows media player but not on a portable mp3 player.
Basically we're looking at 2 main file types for the mp3/4 player. The first and most common of course being '.mp3'. The second is the video format '.amv' You should already have WMP installed on your computer so you won't need the copy on the disc. It's just there if you are running Windows 98 and need to update to WMP v9.

I guess you could use i-tunes as some of these players do play protected content (mine does) but you will need to make sure they are in mp3 format before you upload them (basic)

The folder on the CD that should be of most interest is the "AMV Driver" folder. In it there should be an installation file for the AMV Converter program.. the one you use to convert movie files to the AMV format.

I can recommend a program that may convert your .wmv files from Napster (if thats what Napster does because i've never used it) to standard .mp3 format. It's called AudioVideo to Exe. It can take virtually any format and turn it into any other format .. with the exception of AMV. An example is, i can take a .avi movie file and convert the soundtrack from it into a .mp3 file. Or take an iPod .mp4 file and convert it into .mpg so it loads into AMV Converter to play on my mp3/4 player.
I should upload it to the utilities section here if it hasn't been already.. it's quite a handy little freeware program.

Hope thats not too confusing :wink:

[rockette]

Thanks for your help so far. If I can explain a bit better what happened now I understand it myself.

I bought a Chinese iPod clone called the Tecknet V70 MP3/4 player with 1 gig memory from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. It had good reviews on Amazon but mostly from people who already had iPods and recommended it for newbies. On the Amazon description it says it supports the following music formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV also the music for movie files (WMA format, Windows Media Video).

I have a Compaq Presario PC running XP Professional. It has a CD and DVD reader/writers and an external HD. I use the external HD to store pictures and music including MP3 tracks. I download MP3 tracks in MP3 audio file format usually, from record companies and stars websites.

I also download tracks from Napster which I buy (I have a Napster account) and use to burn CDs. These are in Windows Media Audio file format. I can play all the formats through my PCs speakers and the Napster download work fine and I cannburn CDs OK. I bought the MPx player because I wanted to save and play my MP3 tracks when I was out of the house.

I couldn't understand the MPx user guide which came with it (an unintelligible translation from Chinese) but I managed to copy and paste some MP3 tracks from my eextdrnal HD onto the MPx player . That worked. (I even downloaded a .jpg).

Then I thought I would try and copy and paste some more. So the second time round I copied and pasted a mixture of MP3 audio file format tracks AND Windows Media Audio files (the Napster downloads). I was copying and pasting these from my external hard drive when the MP3 player crashed.

In the course of copying about the 15th track, a Window Media audio file, the system stopped working and I got an error message "Cannot copy (song name) the directory or file cannot be created."

When I looked at the Music option on the MPx to see how many tracks I had stored so far the answer was none. The message said Empty Disk. All the previous tracks I had stored had gone and so had the copies I had made up to that point.

There is a CD with the player, which contains some software although no instructions on how to use it. It has folders called AMV, Drivers for Windows 98 players and Windows Media Player 9.

Which of these should I install and how? The AMV folder contains subfolders called INstMsiA and InstMisw plus several other files all starting with Msi -xxx. Do I just click on each one in turn to install it? Should I do anything else? Will this allow me to copy over Windows Media Audio, once I have managed to reformat the MP3 player - if I do.

I am a bit worried that reformatting the MP player will lose everything else on it including the firmware (which runs Music, Movies, Pictures, Voice etc)

Can you reassure me that reformatting won't affect those options as if so I would have no idea what to do next.

Thanks

Rockette. :roll:

[jctoad]

Follow http://www.mympxplayer.org/how-to-re...ck-vt2400.html This will reformat the drive and remove any memory hack that was done to the player. After you do that, try loading up a bunch of files on the player. I think this will solve your problem.

I looked up that player and it can not play wmv files. All video files would have to be converted to amv files. The wma files may not be able to be played because of DRM (digital rights management), however any any type of file can be stored on the player. The player may not be able to do anything with a file like an Office document, but it can store it as well as any other provided that there is enough room in the memory.

[_Odyssey]

Rockette.. exactly what jctoad said. It still sounds like a memory hack and that hack possibly hasn't been removed. As for the AMV folder, the installation file should be called 'Setup' or 'Setup.exe'. If that file isn't there.. unusual because it should be... you should be able to launch the program from any of the .msi files. I can safely say that your player cannot play all those video file formats. The AMV folder will install the program to convert those formats to AMV. The error you are getting is caused by the failure to copy the last file.. either because your player is still hacked.. or the file itself has some kind of copy protection or is corrupted in some way?
Reformatting doesn't affect the firmware or 'operating system' in your player.. all that info is stored on a completely separate chip.

good luck