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[Solved]What filesystem should a USB MP3 Player be formatted with? by Mike on 03-09-2006 at 12:40 PM

Hello.

It seems that my 256MB MP3 USB player's HDD is having a problem...
I dont know, it could be because I left it in in the USB port for many hours, or because I usually don't remove it with the "Safely Remove Drive" option...

I plugged it in to put a song in it, and I found that almost all of my MP3s were missing (some of them were still there)
Both mp3 player and windows were saying that I had 26MB free (which would be true, if I could see the files...)

So, I chkdsked my mp3 player, and this is what happened:

code:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Mike>chkdsk /f /r i:
The type of the file system is FAT.
Volume Serial Number is 943D-F510
Windows is verifying files and folders...
\REC15.wav  Unrecognized extended attribute handle.
\REC16.wav  Unrecognized extended attribute handle.
\REC17.wav  Unrecognized extended attribute handle.
\REC18.wav  Unrecognized extended attribute handle.
Removing nonvalid long folder entry from \...
File and folder verification is complete.
Convert lost chains to files (Y/N)? y
177094656 bytes in 2528 recovered files.
Windows is verifying free space...
Free space verification is complete.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

  257.531.904 bytes total disk space.
       81.920 bytes in 1 folders.
  229.679.104 bytes in 2.552 files.
   27.770.880 bytes available on disk.

        4.096 bytes in each allocation unit.
       62.874 total allocation units on disk.
        6.780 allocation units available on disk.
I chose to recover everything that was possible to recover.
It seems that my MP3s were recovered, but very many files (2466 to be exact) were created that had size of 4KB.

I think about formatting the MP3 Player and recopying the MP3s again (I was lucky, and I copied my MP3s recently to my computer), however, I don't know with what file system I should format the MP3 player...
It came formatted with FAT16, but I can also formatted with FAT32.
I don't know if I should format it with FAT32, because I don't know if the MP3 player knows how to read that file system...

So, with what filesystem should I format the MP3 Player?
RE: What filesystem should a USB MP3 Player be formatted with? by Dempsey on 03-09-2006 at 01:04 PM

If it came formtted as FAT16 use FAT16.

Or if you really want to try FAT32 and if it doesn't work then use FAT16.

Its not hard :s  Did this really even need a thread?

RE: What filesystem should a USB MP3 Player be formatted with? by Mike on 03-09-2006 at 01:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Dempsey
Did this really even need a thread?
Well, I don't know :P
Maybe there would be something I would need to know before doing this?
Anyway, Im going to format it to FAT16...

Wish me luck... :P

Edit: I formatted it, and it works fine :)
RE: What filesystem should a USB MP3 Player be formatted with? by RaceProUK on 03-09-2006 at 02:11 PM

At 256MB, it won't be an HDD. It'll be some sort of flash memory chip, like pen drives.
At 256MB, the benefits of FAT32 are negligible over FAT16: the only real benefit I can remember right now is the ability to use partitions larger than 2GB.

Anyway, if it came as FAT16, do FAT16.