On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:49 -0500, Mike Hord 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.  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.

Try pretty much any linux distro. If you don't have a version of linux
installed somewhere try one of those "CD" distros that run from a CDR.
TTYL

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