MicroDrive corruption

[JayRayMee.NL]

Hi there,

Yesterday I noticed Windows Media Player was misbehaving.
When I wanted to open my playlists (along with the music stored on MicroDrive) the entire system started to hang. Nothing to do about it: a soft reset was the only thing to do.

When I then tried again, it started all over again: the Media Player froze, along with the rest of the system.

When I then held my X7500 next to my ear to listen if the drive was doing anything, it was this terrifying "tick-tick-tick....and so on" sound that hard drives often make when something is wrong.

Trying to copy as much as I can from the MicroDrive to a MiniSDHC card, some of the files couldn't get through because of error "the parameter is incorrect". Messed up I guess.

I then formatted the MicroDrive, which succeeded the proper way and copied a few files back to it. No problems here.

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So I guess it was just something odd and that it's all gone now? I've had something similar with flash memory cards earlier, and a format was the permanent solution back then.

[mackaby007]

Hi there,

Yesterday I noticed Windows Media Player was misbehaving.
When I wanted to open my playlists (along with the music stored on MicroDrive) the entire system started to hang. Nothing to do about it: a soft reset was the only thing to do.

When I then tried again, it started all over again: the Media Player froze, along with the rest of the system.

When I then held my X7500 next to my ear to listen if the drive was doing anything, it was this terrifying "tick-tick-tick....and so on" sound that hard drives often make when something is wrong.

Trying to copy as much as I can from the MicroDrive to a MiniSDHC card, some of the files couldn't get through because of error "the parameter is incorrect". Messed up I guess.

I then formatted the MicroDrive, which succeeded the proper way and copied a few files back to it. No problems here.

-

So I guess it was just something odd and that it's all gone now? I've had something similar with flash memory cards earlier, and a format was the permanent solution back then.

Thanks for sharing your experience..it's always good to know how one has overcome these things for future reference...you just never know.;)

[irus]

the best thing to do is not use it :eek: I know i know, but the fact is the more you rely on the harddrive the faster it going to break:D so my advise is use a $55 4gb mini sd for most of your stuff and if your going on vacation and want movies then put that on the hard drive.

[mackaby007]

the best thing to do is not use it :eek: I know i know, but the fact is the more you rely on the harddrive the faster it going to break:D so my advise is use a $55 4gb mini sd for most of your stuff and if your going on vacation and want movies then put that on the hard drive.

Kinda agree with you...I only use my MD for Movies, Music and photos and storing uninstalled PPC & PC software. No problems....SD card for everything else including GPS software.