Formatting Player & Video DISASTER-won't play its own vi

anya · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:53 am **Posts:** 20

AAAAAA! It only gets worse!

I think my player is cursed. So I reformatted to get rid of the weird gibberish files and it was nice and clean. But now when I try to load on videos - it gives me a format error! Even though before the videos worked OK after being converted with aviconverter.

What's more - it's no longer able to play its own PRELOADED video! The one that originally came on it and should definitely work. How is this possible?

Did I mess something up when I reformatted?

I've tried resetting it with no change.

What would happen if I did a firmware upgrade? And what is a firmware upgrade anyway? Sorry I'm not very savvy wit this.

Please help me fix this! Thanks!

jo gobel · **Joined:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:39 am **Posts:** 782

im am not sure about this so lets go through a couple things first....

are you using windows vista? if so, do not (at least not right now).

next, did you format to FAT or FAT32? try the other one and see if you still get the same issue.

other than that, good luck, thats about all i got right now.

anya · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:53 am **Posts:** 20

i formatted fat 32, but the dropdown menu doesn't give me the option to format as fat

and no im not using vista

jo gobel · **Joined:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:39 am **Posts:** 782

can you explain the process your following to format the player?

anya · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:53 am **Posts:** 20

i open "my computer", right button click on the icon of the player and select "format". it gives me a little window in which lists the capacity, file system (fat 32), and allocation unit size and a box where i can name the "volume label." then it has format options - but the only clickable one is "quick format" and i have it unchecked. and then just the "ok" and "cancel" buttons" so i just clock "ok" and in a few moments it says "formatting completed". is there another way to format?

Raz · **Joined:** Fri Jul 25, 2003 5:53 am **Posts:** 22200

do you have a OEM version or a Onda version?

anya · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:53 am **Posts:** 20

i'm not sure because i got it off ebay, but i'm pretty sure it's oem, from what i've been reading in the forum. it has the two extra holes near the speaker and no indentation on the bottom.

jo gobel · **Joined:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:39 am **Posts:** 782

hmmm

well, try this video that the Admin posted and see if it works.

http://www.mp4nation.net/videos/test320x240.avi

jo gobel · **Joined:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:39 am **Posts:** 782

oh, and the other thing....

when you unplug the device, you are properly removing it by clicking the icon on the bottom right that says "safely remove hardware"?

anya · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:53 am **Posts:** 20

nope, the test video doesn't work either!!!!!

and i normally do safely eject the device, but i may have forgotten a couple of times. could that have caused this much damage?

is there a way to reset the player beyond formatting it?

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