So, I’m having a very unusual problem with my Fuze right now.
After synching some songs onto the internal memory of my Sansa last night, I unplugged it and patiently waited for that ridiuclous, “Refreshing your media” bar to finish, and after it did, I attempted to play one of the songs I synched onto it and my Fuze locked up while trying to play the song. I had to do a hard reset and when it turned back on, it was stuck on that same song, so I tried playing another and it would go right back to that same song. I was like, “What the **bleep**?” and eventually I was able to play some other songs that were on the external memory instead, but everytime I’d try to play something from the internal memory, the song wouldn’t play and my player would lock up…
After a few minutes I noticed that all of the songs on my internal memory just completely stopped showing up on the library of my Fuze! So I plugged my Fuze into my computer and on Windows Media Player, it claimed that there were no files on either of my internal or external memory sections, but it did say that space was still taken up on both of them. I tried going into both different USB modes and still didn’t see any of my songs listed…
Today I plugged my Fuze in again, and this time, I was fortunately able to see the songs on my external memory, the same ones I can still play on my Fuze, but nope, still can’t see anything on my internal memory.
Anyone know what’s going on with my Fuze? Do I just have to format the internal memory, or something?
Any help would be great, thanks.
@xhybr1dx wrote:
So, I’m having a very unusual problem with my Fuze right now.
After synching some songs onto the internal memory of my Sansa last night, I unplugged it and patiently waited for that ridiuclous, “Refreshing your media” bar to finish, and after it did, I attempted to play one of the songs I synched onto it and my Fuze locked up while trying to play the song. I had to do a hard reset and when it turned back on, it was stuck on that same song, so I tried playing another and it would go right back to that same song. I was like, “What the **bleep**?” and eventually I was able to play some other songs that were on the external memory instead, but everytime I’d try to play something from the internal memory, the song wouldn’t play and my player would lock up…
After a few minutes I noticed that all of the songs on my internal memory just completely stopped showing up on the library of my Fuze! So I plugged my Fuze into my computer and on Windows Media Player, it claimed that there were no files on either of my internal or external memory sections, but it did say that space was still taken up on both of them. I tried going into both different USB modes and still didn’t see any of my songs listed…
Today I plugged my Fuze in again, and this time, I was fortunately able to see the songs on my external memory, the same ones I can still play on my Fuze, but nope, still can’t see anything on my internal memory.
Anyone know what’s going on with my Fuze? Do I just have to format the internal memory, or something?
Any help would be great, thanks.
Most likely, one or more of the last batch of songs that were transfered were corrupt or in a format the fuze doesn’t like.
You can switch to MSC mode on the fuze, then plug it into your computer, look in the fuze’s internal memory with windows explorer and delete the MTable.sys file. That’s the database file. It’ll rebuild itself after you unplug the player, during refresh.
See if the songs on the internal memory show up through windows explorer ( remember to change the usb mode back to what you had before). If they do, delete those songs and transfer them again one by one to see which one, or more, will cause the fuze to lock up.
Oh ok, so by rebuild, you mean it will delete all the songs on the internal memory?
I tried doing what you recommended, but still didn’t see any songs listed on it in Windows Explorer. 
So is my only choice at this point to format it?
Try both USB modes, MSC and MTP, via Settings/System Settings/USB Mode. Windows Explorer can only see one mode at a time. If you were synching, you were probably in MTP mode.
Mtable.sys is an index built from the tags. If you erase it, you will only erase the index–not the songs–and the Fuze will make a new index.
Oh ok, thanks for the help.
I tried both different modes, and still wasn’t able to see any of the songs in Windows Explorer.
@xhybr1dx wrote:
Oh ok, thanks for the help.
I tried both different modes, and still wasn’t able to see any of the songs in Windows Explorer.
You may have to set Windows to “show hidden files and folders”. The Music folder is “hidden” when in MSC mode.
I just tried doing that too, and I still didn’t see anything. I might just have to format it, I guess. I just wish I was able to see what songs were on it before doing so, so I know what to put back on it.
