PLAYER STICKS AT DRIVE CHECKING AND WINDOWS REPORTS FILE CORRUPTION
This condition doesn't prevent the player appearing as a drive in Windows -- but produces a Windows error message about file corruption and you cannot see the directories (folders) on the player. Trying to run Windows disk utilities hangs the program.
The only recourse is to start a DOS box within Windows. Go Start, All Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt. At the prompt type CHKDSK /F and after a pause screen will report that the disk is FAT or FAT32. Wait and you may be rewarded with a window full of text as files are "fixed" (actually they are not) and you are invited then to convert clusters to files. Respond in the affirmative and the player disk structure should be rendered once more accessible in Windows -- though you will notice that much of your data has been lost (in my case 3gig was reduced to about 1gig).
Many tracks may have been saved and should play when you disconnect the player and it starts normally which, hopefully, it will. You can decide at this point whether to leave the remaining tracks and attempt adding more - or, as I would recommend, format the player (see below).
PLAYER BOOTS UP BUT NEW TRACKS CANNOT BE ADDED SUCCESSFULLY.
Issues with this model have arisen when loading new tracks. Previously I thought this might be faulty flash memory or because the designers failed to update the device fully to USB2 fast standards.
Windows was closing the file transfer progress bar, but a glance at the screen of the MP3 player showed it was still writing.
The problem seemed to be solved by waiting for the word Ready to appear before loading more tracks or removing the drive from the computer (using remove safely as mentioned above).
But occasionally the player would display the Ready message improbably early in the transfer. The Windows transfer bar would sit stuck at Xminutes and eventually a message would appear saying that delayed write had failed and the data had been lost.
This would would freeze the computer until the player was disconnected.
FIX: As per previous issue, connect the player to the PC and open My Computer.
When the MP3 player appears on the list of drives, first try to copy any music files on the player to your hard disk. (In extremis, this may not work and may lock up Windows until you remove the MP3 player and start again).
Next click on the player's properties in My Computer and select Tools. Run the check the drive for errors sequence (again do not tick fix errors)
Try to load some new files. If no joy go back Properties and this time select Format and make sure you specify Fat32 (not NTFS).
Formatting takes seconds and once you disconnect the player from the PC, with a battery in it will boot, check the disk and rebuild its database. To add your music back to the player -- connect the USB and drag and drop from where you saved your files on the PC hard drive.
I recently encountered an I/O error while operating my USB Matsui MP3 player.
Unfortunately I was not able to backup the original firmware.
Desperately I went through all related discussions on this forum and whatever version I flashed, I am still not able to 'revive' the player. It currently is noting more than a 2GB USB stick.
So before classifying my MP3 player as 'lost', I hope there is someone who has a similar player...
Has someone a MAT 220MR 2GB from which he can extract the firmware and send it to me?
The techncal specifications of the player are:
Date=9/11/2006 2:57:40 AM
Request_ID=7773
Host_Version=1.675.8.001
SDK_Base_Version=SDK2.61x
USB_Vendor_ID=066F
USB_Product_ID=8441
SCSI_Manufacturer="SigmaTel"
INSTALLER_GUID=c2e8dcaa-1cf4-46ce-8ddd-c89cba2ffada
I need following files:
bootmanager.sb
resource.bin
stmpsys.sb
usbmsc.sb
You can use the program FirmwareExtract.exe which can be found on this forum or on the internet.
Many thanks for mailing this to: daelea1@yahoo.com
Antoon

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