I’m a new Sansa Express owner (just got it yesterday). After a few problems I was able to update the firmware from the original 01.00.15A2 to the latest 01.01.05A
But this is not what I’m here to ask about. The problem is that everytime I connect the Express to my PC’s USB socket, a popup window shows up with the following text:
It sounds to me like Windows is having a hard time because it’s seeing the card slot on the player and trying to access it as though there were a disk inserted. Unless you have a disk in the slot, this shouldn’t ever be an issue, but it sounds like a problem with the computer.
Does the Express show up in My Computer as a Removable Disk or as a Portable Device? If you aren’t sure, check and see if it has a drive letter (for example, the name will end with a letter and a colon, like “E:”) and if it does, it’s a Removable Disk.
Yes, it shows as a removable disk.
A friend of mine suggested to upgrade to WMP11 (I don’t use WMP, so I never upgraded) because he says that if I let Windows manage the Express through the MTP protocol that error should disappear. I could try, although I’d rather use my player as MSC.
Other than that, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Express under Device Manager? Just right-click and ‘Uninstall’ then reconnect it. If you don’t see anything labelled Sansa Express in the Device Manager, look for a USB Mass Storage Device.
Hi kennyj, thanks for the suggestion, although it’s not the same error, nor it can be, considering the different scenarios.
I upgraded WMP to v11 and the error stopped showing, though.
So I guess the error is linked to MTP or something…