I bought a 8GB MP3/4 player off ebay that now after running multiple tools I find out is a 4GB and I am having trouble getting the size right in checkflash so that it can be used as a 4GB drive. I was using this post
ChkFlsh method (revised) and I am doing something wrong because when done I am only getting disk error when trying to access the files on the drive. Below is the steps I followed to get it to a 4GB drive so it can at least be used.
1) Started Check Flash
2) Selected As Physical Device (NT Systems Only)
3) Selected device
4) Selected Write and Read test
4a) Selected Small pattern Set
5) Selected Low Level Initialization
6) Selected Start
On the partition table that popped up on the 0
7) Selected New
8) Moved slider to 3.6 (FAT32)
On the partition 1
9) Selected rest of dsik (FAT16)
10) Selected partition 0 and pressed Activate
11) Selected OK
12) Asked if I wanted to save changes to device selected OK
13) Box popped up asking to replug device, unplugged usb cable and re-inserted
14) When I got the windows box that asked what I wanted to do (open folder etc) I closed it and pressed the OK on the replug box
15) right clicked on the drive in windows and selected format
16) unchecked quick format (windows was unsuccessful so did a quick format)
17) put a few files on the device
18) went to music on the device and got a disk error
What am I doing wrong to prevent me from using as a 4GB drive (USB Flash Tool reported the device to be a 4GB device)?
Trouble with Fake 8GB that should be 4GB
