your friend had another problem than you have.
Kees
i am used to just dragging music where i want it. well one time wmp opened and i let it sync with my mp3 player. now windows will only recognize the songs i loaded with wmp. it shows the space is still taken up on the player but will not open it, recognize, nothing. the songs still play fine on the player but now i cannot do anything with them. is wmp some kind of virus. grrr.
a friend of mine had the same problem. after letting wmp open her mp3 player it now says it must be formatted and the music that is still on it will not play.

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