Re: Gloom, Dispair and Agony on me...

"Kenneth Brody" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Porpoise wrote:
>>
>> "dwåcôn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> > My Motorola m25 MP3 player is somehow destroying memory cards.
>> >
>> > I am on my second SD 512mb card that has been rendered useless after
>> > installing it into the player.
>> >
>> > Am I doing something wrong?  The instructions say that the USB should 
>> > pick
>> > it up as removable storage under the branch for the player.  Trying to
>> > delete using the m25 utility causes the card to go TANGO UNIFORM.  I 
>> > can
>> > run a format (choices are FAT32 and FAT) but then the card is just
>> > unusable.
>> >
>> > Ideas?
>>
>> Where are you formatting it from? The PC or the camera? You should be
>> formatting it from the camera. (If you want it to be usable in the 
>> camera).
>
> My camera doesn't have the option to play MP3's.
>
> But the question still applies after "s/camera/MP3 player/".
>
> Also, is the card unusable only in the MP3 player?  Only in the PC?  Both?
> And can you define "unusable"?


I originally tried formatting from the MP3 device... but the utility would 
lock up and have to be booted, then fragments killed in task manager.  I 
checked -- this is the latest version of the software.  As a last resort, I 
plugged the card into my HP laptop (has a card slot built in -- kewl) and 
formatted that way.  I can use the card in my laptop and it seems to be 
readable in my Palm pilot -- but the m25 acts as if it doesn't exist (it 
shows up in the utility program, but won't accept files).

I think the FAT or whatever filing system is corrupt -- but at this point it 
won't format using the utility.

Might be SOL, I suspect...

d.c.