Yes like any disc drive re-partitioning will wipe all data off the disc (thats not the firmware thats not affected).

What is the reported size of the disc in MP3 Disc Utility?

ian

I installed the MP3 Player Utilities 4.18 and started MP3 Player Disk Manager

then i get 2 times the same error Not detected removeable disk!

afterwards the main Frame is visible with the Driveletter from my player and the capacity 1757 MB and 3598409 total sectors.
The area with Partition and encrypt is visible but not editable on all format-type settings

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Are you on Vista/7 or XP?

I used XP first and today I tryed with Win 7. But ChkFlsh also don't show an existing partitiontable, and don't know anything from the real existing 4gb. The MP3 Player Disk Manager isn't available on Win 7 so I can't say if there is any different between this systems.

I think I need a tool like ChkFlsh to write a free edited partition down.

We have found chkflsh crashes on Vista at the point were you replug the player, verified on two different laptops and two different players. Does anyone know of a newer version of chkflsh? We tried chkflsh 1.11 and 1.13 but both crash at that point (BSOD).

ian

Also noted a strange artifact/effect with some players on chkflsh, probably due to the way the hack affects the disc info. When you go to re-partition to say 1.8GB you get a "real" size of 210-250MB. To get a "real" partition of 1.8GB you need to set the slider to 16GB. This was the sort of player with touch screen and camera sold as 32GB on ebay.

ian

When I open CheckFlash I see my MP4 player in the Drive: box, but as soon as I check 'As physical device' the Device box goes blank, even if I click on the little down arrow.

If I check 'Low level initialization' most the the page greys out and I still can't select anything in the Device: box.

Any suggestions??

Here is my player info:

2008/09/30
9.5.54
QS_AK2027
2009/09/01

When tested with h2testw is comes back as 1935 MB.

Alrighty, so I downloaded a new version of checkflash (i guess it was newer because it was slightly larger than the version i had), and I was able to create the partitions, but when I get to the part that I have to replug the device without dismounting my computer crashes as soon as I plug it back in. I tried it twice and twice it crashed and restarted.

What OS? It only works on XP as far as I know

GUYs
i recently got the 5th generation ipod nano close
its has a action controller 2025 and 16gigs tried to do everything in the site and plenty of others nothing works
i believe i got it working now
no FORMAT ERRORS or disk errors

this is how it got done.
using CHECK FLASH thanks to frozensoda
but instead of creating partitions simply delete everything there no partitions are required

when asked to disconnect after writing the changes then simply unplug and press okay

now connect u should have the disk being recognized as a flash drive format using the OS' Format utility Select "FAT32"..

disconnect after the format and reconnect the player should show the the memory on its screen

One big thing i noticed this player has a problem with playing anything higher than 160Kbps..
I converted all the mp3 to 128Kbps just to be safe .. YUP the same files are playing like a charm. :)
spent a week on this shit..

Hope this helps u guys TOO..
cheers