On 7/8/05, Mike Hord <mike.hord@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.  


  There are many ways of doig this. The simplest is to grab a WIN98
operating system disckete, start the win98 on your machine and format
the HDD in FAT32.
Only your HDD requesting format must be installed.
Bad sections can be excluded using an utility designed for the
specific HDD you may have (like HDD manager from Ontrack).
Or manualy mode with diskedit if bad tracks where previously founded
and are just a few.

BTW, I never seen the error message you got it.

best regards,
Vasile


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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