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

"dwåcôn" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> "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.
>

 Are you running the latest level of the firmware for the M25???