I have a hard-drive based MP3 player (a Neuros II,
for anyone wondering) which has become a bit
iffy when trying to copy data onto it.  Basically,
when copying files to the drive, the copying
eventually hangs and gives me a "Cannot copy,
the path is too deep" message.

This seems to happen right about the same "time"
each time, i.e., after ~4GB of data is onboard.

This leads me to believe there may be a bad
sector on the HD, or something similar.  
Scandisk chokes when trying to verify the drive;
it's FAT32 formatted, and my XP machines only
want to format it as NTFS.  Does anyone have
a favorite (free or brief trial) product which will
format the drive to FAT32 and modifiy the FAT
to exclude the bad sections of the drive?  I'm
willing to lose quite a bit of storage space: it
has an 80GB drive and I only need about 35.

I'd hate to have to buy a new disk for it.  :-(

Mike H.

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