Archos Gemini XS 100 not recodnising Hard Drive

Makes a strange rrrrr inside the player then a window pops up and states:
Read Access Error!
Can't Read From Hard Disc>

Anyone got a solution< if the heard drive is K_put can i get another one and where from>

Thanx for your help

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billshaw Dec 13, 2007

I am having the same problem

The same message

Read Access Error!

Can't readfrom hard disk!
Anonymous Jan 14, 2008

I live in Spain, just bought a Gmini 100 MP3 and have the same error, can't read hard disk and Archos support in Europe say I have to return it to the retailer for a solution but Spain is no good at problem resolving! Looks like problem can't be resolved.
ljsmurf Mar 29, 2008

Yea I have the same problem, a bit to poor to replace my MP3 player at the moment so a solution would be great!
Anonymous Apr 22, 2009

SAME AS ABOVE SAME AS ABOVE
brjones May 24, 2009

Can someone tell us what type of internal driver or hard disk this xs100 and possibly xs104 use? If it can be upgraded with a commonly-available format, it might be a win-win situation? If it uses the Seagate CF/CompactFlash format "photo hard drives", it would be (possibly) an easy matter of even getting a 16 or 32GB CF card for it? I don't own one, but am looking into buying one as a spare MP3 player. If the hard drive/memory could be upgraded, especially to solid state, that would be cherry. I read somewhere that it has an "upgradeable hard drive", but I'm not sure if that's true? Anyone want to crack theirs open, and give us the specs on the memory storage medium, and possibly post some photos somewhere?

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Throw it away!!! Junk.

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