[solved] Files invisible to rockusb player

[TimBo]

Hi all
I purchased a rockusb chip player. When I first got it I could view the sample files and add some new ones. However after my computer dropped the usb connection the disk became corrupted, so I reformatted the players drive (to fat16 as I'm sure that what it was to start with) But now when I add files to it the player cant see them. despite being visible in windows on the usb drive. I have tried formatting in fat16 and fat32 many times with no luck. Anyone know what could be up?

Many thanks

[lattesurf]

TimBo , try formatting with MP3 Utilities Disk Tool instead. Guide here http://www.mympxplayer.org/how-to-re...ck-vt2400.html

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

lattesurf, aren't you forgetting that the Disk Tool only works on Action chipset players? :P

There is a free utility called SwissKnife which is very good at formatting flash drives, give it a try. Here: http://compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

[TimBo]

Thanks for your advice it is now working, this is what I needed to do.

I tried the SwissKnife tool mentioned by Th3_uN1Qu3 and well it didn't seem to work to well it all, when trying to format to fat it completely wiped the partition and left the disk in raw format.

So I went into system administration tools in windows and reformatted the drive from raw to fat16

Now here is where the brainwave struck, The rockusb player has a record voice function so I thought I would get the player to make the first write to the disk with this, rather than moving files over in windows straight after the format.
So I unplugged the player, recored a couple seconds of voice and it happily wrote the wav file to the disk. Now I plugged it back in to the PC and could see the voice directory on the disk, now I copied some files over, unplugged switched player back on held breath and yay the files appeared.

So in short it seems that if you have this problem, format the drive (fat 16), unplug, record voice, plug in, move files, all good.