Missing disk space in 8GB Clip+

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I just did a reformat on Windows 7 on my 8GB Clip+ using FAT32. After it’s done, file space are reported correctly.

Then I did a format using the format feature in Clip+ in order to get the folders back. I did a chk on the file space and 178MB was used. I can’t find anything inside all the folders that could have taken up the space so now I’m stumped. Is this normal?

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yes, the internal firmware has that space reserved.

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Hi icsterm,

thanks for the reply. After I made my first post, I did a chkdsk on the Sansa Clip+ (connected via MSC), it detected lost files and some other errors. It’s weird to me that chkdsk shld report it as such after I did a full format via Windows 7 followed by the format feature in the Clip+…