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rayyanfairaq
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Posted: 2003-02-23 03:24
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Hello everyone. I know ericsson's HPM-10 MP3 player is quite old now, but I found it for a very attractive price and I had to get it! Plus I always wanted to get an MP3 player for my phone... Anyway, I had many problems with the MMC card. Eventually, I found out that the card which came with the player (32 mb) was damaged. I had it replaced and I also bought an extra 128 mb card! Now both worked very well with no problems at all. But no thanks to my curiousity, I managed to screw them up! After reading around, I realized I'm not the only one who was disappointed that the card's capacity was lower than what was labeled. So I kept on trying to format the cards over and over, and I used different programs. I tried to download some MMC utilities, but the only thing I found was an un-delete software. I used it just for the heck of it! Now finally when I stopped, and decided no more formatting, I drag-n-drop a few MP3s, put the card in the player, and it says: "File System Error" Now it was working just yesterday! I don't know what's wrong. When I formated before in 2in 2000, I tried all the file system types, and found out that the player only recognized FAT. Now with my machine, running Win XP, I also formated the card using FAT but still it's givving me the error message. What did I do wrong? Yeah I know I shouldn't have fooled around with it too much..... I'm guessing either the cluster setting or something is wrong... Anyway, I'm using a USB card reader. So if anyone knows what I can do to fix this problem PLEASE let me know! Thanks!
Gazz85
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Posted: 2003-02-23 12:06
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The reason the MMC's don't hold as much data as labelled is because they are mesured in metric units (1000bytes to a Mb) where as computers use traditional mesaurement of 1024bytes to a Mb. You'll find that hard-drives do this too (so when your buying 40Gig ur only really gettin about 38gig).

All i can think that you could do is format your MMC's in windows (right click > format), but sounds like u bust em).
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