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Hey i think i may beable to help youu. it happend to me. k u see where its says a-b thats means it will start the start of every song so u must change the settings of it....
it should b in look in the repeat folder and change it.... Goood luck to ur son and you

http://www.computerhope.com/formathl.htm

in Dos you can format it back to FAT

greetings

I’m still trying to work out the best allocation units size (partition). Best so far seems to be a partition the same as its capacity that way there is only one partion. For instance, mine is 4gb so I set the allocation unit at 4096.

You have some good information there, but you are wrong about the allocation unit. The 4096 is not GB, but BYTES!
The highest allocation unit you can set is 64K and even thats not close to 4GB. This allocation unit does not decide how many “Partitions” you have on the drive but simply the file allocation partition size which is used internally by the system to allocate space.

I am experimenting with the Unit allocation size myself.

I have a problem I too Format mp4 player to FAT32 .. and in Computer managment .. I cant loading the Disk Director not happens .. how can i format to FAT ? ( sorry for my bad english ..

turns out my mp4 player was a hack. formatting didn’t help. it was advertised on ebay as a 4gb but after checking out the memory chip turns out it is only 512mb. What a rip. I would suggest to others out there to take a look at their mp4 player and see what the mem capacity really is. These things can never be over 2gb, so if yours says its more, like 4 or 8gb, you got screwed. here’s two links so you can learn more:

Fake MP4 player guide (excellent info):
http://reviews.ebay.com/The-Official-Fake-4GB-MP4-Player-Scam-On-eBay-FAQ_W0QQugidZ10000000002547758

Memory size guide for MP4 players (worked for me):
http://www.mympxplayer.org/samsung-and-hynix-nand-flash-sizes-and-serial-numbers-vt1692.html

ktgagnon wrote:

Okay, apparently I’m having the same problem with my S1 MP4 player (Chinese). You can format into FAT using Windows and I’m still trying to work out the best allocation units size (partition). Best so far seems to be a partition the same as its capacity that way there is only one partion. For instance, mine is 4gb so I set the allocation unit at 4096. Heres how: Plug in MP4 player and make sure hardware is installed and good to go. Check drive letter in my computer to be sure you format the right drive. Mine actually shows up as F and G but only the F is the active 4gb, G is 1mb and inactive (?). Go to control panel, then administrative tools, then double-click computer management. Double click on disk management under storage on the left side of screen. All recognized hard drives will show up. Right click on the drive that is your MP4 player and click FORMAT. Choose FAT file format and set the allocation unit size (not sure what this needs to be yet, if this will indeed work). Format it, then when its complete go ahead and transfer your files. Just use folders in the root drive with no subfolders and no more than 99 files per folder. Be careful, it appears that the number of folders is limited, to like 9 or something (?). hopefully this will help..

Thank you so much, this helped heaps. This thing finally works.

matt wrote: Hi i formated my MP3/MP4 into FAT32 instead of FAT and since ive dun tht ive just had problems with it! Tryed formating it bk but windows only lets the option FAT32 come up wen i try to format it!
Ive tryed the MP3 tools but doesnt reconise My devise as FAT32,
Plz! help me to convert it bk to FAT
Cheers

Okay, apparently I’m having the same problem with my S1 MP4 player (Chinese). You can format into FAT using Windows and I’m still trying to work out the best allocation units size (partition). Best so far seems to be a partition the same as its capacity that way there is only one partion. For instance, mine is 4gb so I set the allocation unit at 4096. Heres how: Plug in MP4 player and make sure hardware is installed and good to go. Check drive letter in my computer to be sure you format the right drive. Mine actually shows up as F and G but only the F is the active 4gb, G is 1mb and inactive (?). Go to control panel, then administrative tools, then double-click computer management. Double click on disk management under storage on the left side of screen. All recognized hard drives will show up. Right click on the drive that is your MP4 player and click FORMAT. Choose FAT file format and set the allocation unit size (not sure what this needs to be yet, if this will indeed work). Format it, then when its complete go ahead and transfer your files. Just use folders in the root drive with no subfolders and no more than 99 files per folder. Be careful, it appears that the number of folders is limited, to like 9 or something (?). hopefully this will help..

gremlin51 wrote: I recently bought a 2gb mp4 with 1.8 inch screen on Ebay from China and it is actually 2gb.

How do you know? It may be, but apparently people who buy the 4-gig version think they’re transferring tons of files on their devices until they begin to play them back. Then everything goes to hell in a handbasket.

Many Chinese mp3 players are probably okay, but I’ve noticed only the eBay models are advertised as 4 gigs. If you do a Google search you’ll find Hong Kong MP4s are maximum listed as 2 gigs. None is 4 gigs.

Perhaps we should begin to refer to Chinese memory as “crapacity." Sure seems to fit!

I recently bought a 2gb mp4 with 1.8 inch screen on Ebay from China and it is actually 2gb, I have loaded 1.6gb of movie and mp3 files on it and still have room. It is not a real mp4 as you have to convert the files to amv for which they provide a program, but at $40 plus postage it is reasonable.