Software corruption

[Roverbhoy]

Hello people...

I need help, big time.
Just bought an e-bay player...received it Friday.
8gb silver...no other info than that.

Worked fine for first two days, then when loading up music, it manged to get files mixed up into different folders, and the tracks didn't match the titles. Then it started crashing after making format error message. Same problem with movies and pictures.

Now I'm a complete novice at this, no clue as to what to do.
The firmware says:-

ATJ93 _S75
2007/01/07

9.0.48.000
2006/10/10.

Can I simply reload the firmware to correct this corruption, and if yes, where do I get this from and how do I load up?



Cheers

[Roverbhoy]

I don't believe this...just been reading some of the topics on this super forum...I've got a memory hacked mp4 player...Jeezzzzz

Completed the walk through on how to correct the memory hack,and my 8gb player is actually a 2gb...what a con.

I'm raging now.......... :x

[Roverbhoy]

Still angry, but also wondering-
how was I able to load up almost 5gb of music, etc on to a 2 gb player?...how can that happen?...some sort of compression issue?

[lattesurf]

Roverbhoy , when you stored more than 2GB of files, anything above the 2GB limit are all corrupted. That's why you experienced all the messed up filenames, undeletable (is there such a word?), self-duplication of files, format error. When you never even touched the filenames and stuff in the first place.

Those files stored above the 2GB limit are just the filenames/attributes themselves and do not contain any data. So when you played those "files", it just causes all those weird things you experienced.

[Roverbhoy]

Thanks a lot lattesurf, that makes sense...but why didn't I get a message that said 'target disk full' or something similar?

...and your right, all the things you mentioned happened...self duplication, undeletable files, format error, etc.

Now, even though its still a nice 2GB mp4 player and I only paid twenty quid for it, I'm still annoyed that I was conned into believing I was getting 8GB...thank goodness for forums like this to help the unwarey

[lattesurf]

Roverbhoy , that's because the partition file was modified to trick Windows into thinking that the player was really 8GB. So even if you copied your 3rd or 4th GB into it, there isin't any error as Windows recognises it as 8GB.

In fact if you first connected your player to a linux box, you would have discovered the memory hack instantly as the hack only tricks the Windows OS.

[Roverbhoy]

Very well explained lattesurf...you've been of immense help.
Thank you