An odd thing just happened...

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I bought my Connect whitebox and retro-installed the firmware for the wifi radio function.  Yesterday I recieved a 16gb micro sd card for the expansion slot.  All was going with loading songs until today when I plugged it in for a song update.  My songs were erased and my Sansa was reading my card as a 1gb and not a 16gb.  I tried formating the card, but it did’t fix the problem.

I’m stumped… anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Message Edited by ResidentAsylum on 06-11-2009 04:47 PM

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After you formatted the card, did your PC see it as 16GB, but the Connect still saw it as a 1GB?

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It seems that my PC sees the card the same way my Connect does… as 1gb external storage.  The card worked fine yesterday, and I had approx. 2300-ish songs on it.

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Sounds like you have a bad card.  :cry:

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That’s what I was afraid of.  It boggles my mind how the card can be working fine one minute, and literally the very next minute it goes bad.

The down-side(other than having a bum card) is that I boght it from a guy on Ebay, and I don’t think he’s gonna go for replacing it.

The up-side is that I didn’t spend that much on it, so it’s not that big of a loss.

Message Edited by ResidentAsylum on 06-12-2009 07:42 AM

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Have you left seller feedback yet?

I hope you didn’t buy it from “zjlee08”, because I’m waiting for an SDHC card from that person.  :dizzy_face:

Message Edited by PromisedPlanet on 06-12-2009 11:10 AM

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I was able to borrow a friend’s MSD USB card reader and I formatted the chip.  I works great now.

I think I had a corrupted mp3 file on the card, and that caused the card to error.

Message Edited by ResidentAsylum on 06-20-2009 06:29 AM

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What did you use to retrofit your Connect for wifi?

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@brawner wrote:
What did you use to retrofit your Connect for wifi?

Just run the recovery tool.

Hmm … it’s not at its usual spot at the SanDisk website.  I did find this, but I’m not sure it’s the same thing:

http://mp3support.sandisk.com/tools/DeviceRecoverySetup.exe

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Older devices cannot accept a device or even a drive with more than 2GB on it.

Is it an old Windows 98 vintage (pre SP2) unit you’re trying to talk to?

I’ve had a digital camera and computer that would address/allow more than 2GB.