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It sounds as if it a problem with write caching.
Basically, if write caching is enabled, any changes you make to the files in Windows are not actually carried out at the time, but are saved into memory and then when you select safe removal they are written to the external device in one go. From what you describe, since you can't select safe removal, it sounds as if the changes are never being written to your player.
Try this:
Go to My Computer, right-click the icon for your player and select properties.
Go to the hardware tab, scroll down the list and highlight your player and then click properties.
Go to the policies tab and make sure 'optimize for quick removal' is selected.
Ok your way back out.
Hopefully this should solve the problem.
Matt
Comments:
Mar 01, 2008
- Another way you might be able to get at the setting is as follows... (You'll need to have your player plugged in at the time)
Right-click the My Computer icon and your desktop and select Properties.
Go to the Hardware tab and the click Device Manager.
Click the + next to Disk Drives to expand the list. Right-click on your player and select Properties.
Hopefully you will have access to the Policies tab from here - If so, make sure 'optimize for quick removal' is selected.
Just reading through your original post again, am I right in thinking that you never installed the drivers that came with the player, instead you are using the generic Windows ones? It might also be worth installing them just in case this is adding to your problems.
Let me know how you get on.
Matt.
Mar 02, 2008
- Reading through your original post again, I'm getting the feeling that Windows may have incorrectly identified the hardware and installed the wrong type of driver for your player, albeit that it provides some sort of functionality. Was it a driver from the install CD, or did Windows just use one of its own generic ones?
(I would have thought that it should show up as a mass storage device, not a portable device. Out of interest, does your other player also show up as a portable device?)
If it was one of Windows own, that could well be the problem. If so...
You said you can get to the drivers tab. Go there and select the 'uninstall drivers' option. I would also unistall the software that came with the player. Once done, reboot the PC.
Now go through the normal install procedure, i.e. install the player software and drivers BEFORE connecting the player to the PC. This should force Windows to install the manufacturers drivers - Hopefully it will solve the problem, but if not it is at least one thing thing that can be ruled out and helps narrow it down.
Keep me posted!
Matt
