I’ve read through this thread and have tried all the fixes. I am still having a problem getting my music from my Sansa Clip to show in the drive on my computer. When I plug in the USB, the computer recognizes it, even calls it “Sansa Clip”, shows that it’s memory is almost maxed out, but I cannot access any of the songs. In the folder it’s just subfolders: “Voice”, Audible", “Record” and some other random files. I recently reloaded my C: and have been updating a lot of stuff. I tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it, no fix. Any advice?
FlyMikeFly wrote:
In the folder it’s just subfolders: “Voice”, Audible", “Record” and some other random files. I recently reloaded my C: and have been updating a lot of stuff. I tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it, no fix. Any advice?
You might try un-hiding the hidden folders in Windows.
This worked for me, that rocks.
Went to the main menu, settings, and usb setting, set it to MSC and right after that windows detected it as a removable disk Sansa Clipp.
Thanks jjack_9999
win xp SP3
if anyone here is having trouble with their sansa clip not being recognized by the computer especially window vista.
click start, control panel, administrative tools, computer management, look for portable device, click on sansa clip, click driver, click uninstall, then wait, then click on update driver, once it is finished your back on track 
I´ve tried the msc and mtp method but it didn´t work. And I already have windows media player 11 installed.
Nothing appears in my computer. and when I plug it on the pc it says: found new hardware - a problem occurred during hardware installation. Your new hardware might not work properly. what should I do?
When I first got my Sansa Clip a year or two ago it worked just fine and dandy. Then the other day I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall windows XP, it started having the same trouble, not charging, or showing up in “my computer” and the under the hardware tab in systems it was showing that the driver was faulty. So i went into the setting on my sansa clip as someone sugested and changed it to msc instead of auto-detect. That did the trick, and voila Im hooked up again, now if only all the rest of my hardware was that simple… still have tons of other issues, but this is not the venue for my woes of running XP on a machine built for Vista.
That device not to bad, I got the same problems and fix it : goto menu -\> setting -\> USB and choose "MSC" (auto by default, some computers do not run ) Windows XP SP2. US version
works
Then you were using MTP mode or possibly auto.
Ignore my message, it was a reply wayback, don’t know why it went to the end of the queue.
The USB mode setting works on MSC in XP but in MTP the Device Manager shows a “?.” WMA audio books downloaded from Overdrive and transfered under MTP in XP will stop working in a few hours and ask for a license. MP3 audio books work fine. However WMA downloaded from Overdrive MUST be trnasfered with MTP if you want to listen to the entire book. I could only do that with Windows 7.
