You might try Spinrite. It will lock out the bad sectors without
reformatting.

The nature of that message suggests that the FAT is messed up, not
necessarily bad sectors...



On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Dave VanHorn wrote:

> At 01:49 PM 7/8/2005, 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.
>
> I'm getting this on a desktop machine, just recently.
> I don't think I'd ever seen this message before.
>
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