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Hi Everyone,
I purchased a SONY MP4 player two days ago, had it formatted as FAT32 (Which was a mistake) and downloaded songs into it. I tried playing the songs but only the first 9 tracks played. I thought it was some sort of formatting error so I waited till I got home and re-formatted the player still as FAT32 and the problem persisted. Later I discovered I shouldn't have formatted as FAT32 so I changed the formatting preference to FAT, still, the problem persisted. Yesterday it occured to me that the player may have bad sectors on the disk so i decided to verify that. I plugged in the player to my system and tried playing the tracks from the MP4 on my system. True to my thoughts, only a few tracks played. The others were either reported by Windows Media Player as unreadable (Cannot recognize audio codec...something like that) or played funny sounds similar to those from a cracking compact disc. I've used the Windows disc checking utility a number of times, still no positive result. However, I noticed that the disc checking took an unusually long time (up to an hour) when I checked the "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" box but went on super fast when I checked only "Automatically fix file system errors". I can't help but wonder if that has any significance. Right now, all I want to do is recover the bad areas of the MP4 disc. Out of 4GB, I can use only about 35MB, that's appaling. It is supposed to be 4GB and it's still 4GB. Help Needed Please!
I purchased a SONY MP4 player two days ago, had it formatted as FAT32 (Which was a mistake) and downloaded songs into it. I tried playing the songs but only the first 9 tracks played. I thought it was some sort of formatting error so I waited till I got home and re-formatted the player still as FAT32 and the problem persisted. Later I discovered I shouldn't have formatted as FAT32 so I changed the formatting preference to FAT, still, the problem persisted. Yesterday it occured to me that the player may have bad sectors on the disk so i decided to verify that. I plugged in the player to my system and tried playing the tracks from the MP4 on my system. True to my thoughts, only a few tracks played. The others were either reported by Windows Media Player as unreadable (Cannot recognize audio codec...something like that) or played funny sounds similar to those from a cracking compact disc. I've used the Windows disc checking utility a number of times, still no positive result. However, I noticed that the disc checking took an unusually long time (up to an hour) when I checked the "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" box but went on super fast when I checked only "Automatically fix file system errors". I can't help but wonder if that has any significance. Right now, all I want to do is recover the bad areas of the MP4 disc. Out of 4GB, I can use only about 35MB, that's appaling. It is supposed to be 4GB and it's still 4GB. Help Needed Please!
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