Sansa E200 OLD

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I have an old Sansa e200 v1.0 and I have a few questions if anyone still remembers them.

  1. When I plugit into Win7 X64 using MSC mode the unit just fails to connect.  I receive and unknown device error that won’t go away without a reboot of the PC.  The screen on the e200 says connected/disconected over and over so I’m assuming it’s a compatiblity issues with Win7?  Windows 7 native transfer mode pops up when connected via MTP mode.

  2. What is the larged microSD card the unit supports?  I know the card doesn’t support microSDHC, shouldn’t it read a 2gb card at least?   My 2gb card doesn’t show up as free space in settings or in WIndows 7 as MTP or MSC.

  3. Anyone ever try the 3rd party app rockbox on it?

I know the unit is OLD OLD OLD in techno years but it still works and I hate to just toss it.

Thanks

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@smitty870 wrote:

I have an old Sansa e200 v1.0 and I have a few questions if anyone still remembers them.

 

  1. When I plugit into Win7 X64 using MSC mode the unit just fails to connect.  I receive and unknown device error that won’t go away without a reboot of the PC.  The screen on the e200 says connected/disconected over and over so I’m assuming it’s a compatiblity issues with Win7?  Windows 7 native transfer mode pops up when connected via MTP mode.

 

 

Probably some weirdness with the USB drivers on your PC.  I use the e200v1 with Windows 7 and have not had any issues in MSC mode.  Since MTP mode still works, the USB port on the player can’t be broken.  

smitty870 wrote:

2. What is the larged microSD card the unit supports?  I know the card doesn’t support microSDHC, shouldn’t it read a 2gb card at least?   My 2gb card doesn’t show up as free space in settings or in WIndows 7 as MTP or MSC.

2GB in the sandisk firmware, 32 GB in rockbox.

 smitty870 wrote:

  1. Anyone ever try the 3rd party app rockbox on it?

I prefer it, but then again I wrote a bit of it :slight_smile:



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@saratoga wrote:

@smitty870 wrote:

I have an old Sansa e200 v1.0 and I have a few questions if anyone still remembers them.

 

  1. When I plugit into Win7 X64 using MSC mode the unit just fails to connect.  I receive and unknown device error that won’t go away without a reboot of the PC.  The screen on the e200 says connected/disconected over and over so I’m assuming it’s a compatiblity issues with Win7?  Windows 7 native transfer mode pops up when connected via MTP mode.

 

 

Probably some weirdness with the USB drivers on your PC.  I use the e200v1 with Windows 7 and have not had any issues in MSC mode.  Since MTP mode still works, the USB port on the player can’t be broken.  

 

 

 

smitty870 wrote:

2. What is the larged microSD card the unit supports?  I know the card doesn’t support microSDHC, shouldn’t it read a 2gb card at least?   My 2gb card doesn’t show up as free space in settings or in WIndows 7 as MTP or MSC.

 

2GB in the sandisk firmware, 32 GB in rockbox.

 

 

 

 

 smitty870 wrote:

  1. Anyone ever try the 3rd party app rockbox on it?

 

 

I prefer it, but then again I wrote a bit of it :slight_smile:

 


 


 

Thanks for the reply!  I ended up loading an old disk image of windows xp mce onto my laptop and the unit worked fine.

Must be something with Windows 7 not liking my e200 which is weird.  

I did like the rockbox nice job!   I’m giving the mp3 player to my father and I decided the rockbox my bit a little bit much for him.