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I bought about 20 faulty sony e407 flash memory players, the majority seemt o have a fault where it says format error on screen. I have no idea what this means... It does store data on the disc and appears as a healty volume in xp computer disc management. I have run firmware upgrade, but cant think what else it could be....
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Posted: 2006-02-21 14:22:43
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Hmmm. No idea, but when they're fixed, how much are you looking for them?
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Posted: 2006-02-21 14:27:16
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Format error usually means what it says, the drive or in this case memory cannot be formatted properly with the selected file system. This is normally caused by physical faults with the memory chips and as such, there's not a lot you can do.

It still might let you store music on it, but some the files might become corrupted resulting in skipping or some tracks not even playing at all.

The only other thing I can think of is that by 'format' error, it might mean the format of the files themselves, i.e. it thinks that it can't play .mp3 files. I'd have thought that a firmware flash would fix this though, so it's likely to be the first reason.

'Cryovision' - I quite like that



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[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2006-02-21 13:32 ]
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Posted: 2006-02-21 14:29:22
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@ cyco - cheers, il just asume they are all f**ked and sell them as faulty lol. you can still put files on them, but its not liking the whole music thing.

@ meths a few did come to me working (only like 4) but I can sell them on ebay for about 60 quid, I also have some 512mb ones which seem to sell for 40-50
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Posted: 2006-02-21 14:32:20
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@ cyco - it does let me format them? wtf
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Posted: 2006-02-21 14:35:59
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Dodgy memory chips probably, fill a couple of 'em right up and see if they play alright.

Could be another hardware issue causing the player to report a format error when there isn't one.
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Posted: 2006-02-21 14:42:08
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u really should learn to spell lol
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Posted: 2006-02-21 14:51:39
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won't play any music as it says format error, Im just going to asume they are buggered and not worry lol

cheers for the help
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Posted: 2006-02-21 14:52:38
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Just sell them as pen drives. Still fetch like £20 each on the 512MB ones
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Posted: 2006-02-21 15:07:26
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i payed £45 for a new 1gb mp3 player a few weeks back so who would be idiotic enough to pay £60 for a 512mb faulty one lol. i would try a fw flash. try looking here


dude_se
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Posted: 2006-02-21 17:54:39
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