I have used Sandisk for a few years with no trouble in my car but recently all tracks get cut short, I bought a new Sandisk but it does the same.
many stereos won’t work with USB 3.0 try a 2.0 drive
It worked fine for three years, then started cutting tracks short, I live in the Canary islands and wondered if it was the dust/sand making the tracks jump?. Not sure what a 2.0 drive is !
Have you changed the stereo? or the car battery? Is your USB flash drive USB 2.0 or USB 3.0?
I Had the stereo checked in the garage and they said it was fine, the SanDisk was playing fine for more than three years, the only thing I can think of is that my friend put a load of music on to my laptop for me and I transferred then to the disk. I always had trouble transferring music from cd’s as they were protected, but never from the media on my laptop. I have tried using compressed air on the system but to no avail. The music plays fine just cuts each track short by at least half. I’m not sure if its 2.0 or 3. as I don’t know where to check that.
I recommend you format the usb flash drive with your laptop and test how it works with 10 songs
I have done that and it works fine on my laptop, all very strange.
Problem solved, there is a button on the car stereo that says “mix” must have got pressed by mistake, the Sandisk work fine again, I am so happy I am going to have sex tonight, oops sorry that should be SIX ( Pints) tonight.
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Format the external drive or flash drive
If you see the external hard drive in the list of drives in the Disk Management window, but you still cannot access it, it has probably been formatted using the Linux or Mac operating systems. Windows Windows cannot read external drives or disk-on-keys that come with the XFS (Linux) or APFS (Mac MAC) file systems, so you will have to format the external drive through Windows which will create the older NTFS or FAT32 file system (your choice) ). This way it will be able to identify the drive and allow you to work with it. Keep in mind that this operation will cause the deletion of all the files that are on the hard drive or portable memory. Therefore, before you start the process, we recommend connecting the external drive to the operating system with which you formatted it, and making a backup of all the files on it. To format the external drive follow these steps:
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Enter the Disk Management window (explained in step 1) → right-click the external drive or the USB disk, and then select the boot option.
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In the window that opens in the volume label field, you can type a name for the external drive or leave the name that appears by default, in the file system field, choose the desired file system (for external hard drives we recommend choosing NTFS), check the box perform a fast boot, and then Click OK to start the formatting process. If you have a flash drive with a not particularly large volume, in most cases you will have to choose a FAT32 file system, but keep in mind that this file system cannot save files over 4GB.
If you’ve gone through the entire process listed here and your external hard drive or USB flash drive still doesn’t work or doesn’t appear, it’s likely faulty. In such cases, we recommend contacting a professional computer expert or a data recovery laboratory.
I, like others here, have a WD external disk model 1130.
I tried to perform all the actions mentioned here but even though I see it in the disk manager I am unable to perform any action on it to bring it to a proper working state, not recognized in the computer drives.
Would appreciate help!
