Fat32 bad sectors marking tool...

[^Lele^]

I have a slight issue of 32k of bad sectors on a usb device.
Anyone knows any way, or tool, to mark them as bad, and get on with my life?
Cheers.

[DaForce]

In the old old days. Windows/Dos scandisk used to do that.

Might be worthwhile trying scandisk now days (if you havnt already) and chkdsk as well (check out the switches for it)

Other than that, might be time to get a new one. As the bad sector will just continue to get worse I imagine.

[Blitterswitch]

I was under the impression that bad sectors are only marked during a full disk format. I never remember chkdsk doing much fxn just a lot of chkng and infrming

[^Lele^]

The mp4 player IS brand new.
and it's a mere 32k of sillyness on over 8GB of goodness, ffs.

Chkdsk sucks bigtime, so does scandisk (i did do the full surface scan, and so on, of course, to no avail).
Commercially, there's little stuff available.
Most of them require a floppy, which i haven't got in my pc, and which would not see anything sata or usb, of course.

I'm a bit at a loss, i low-level formatted it a few times now, and still have no clue as to what i should look for, where's the bleeding Norton Disk Doctor, again?

[DaForce]

Your product has an error... return it

There is a program called diskeeper, its actually a defrag program. But I have a feeling they do disk tools as well. And I imagine they would be good as the defrag is great.

*shrugs* personally I would return it.

[^Lele^]

to hong-kong?
It costed 40 euros, the shipping and waiting would be more expensive than that...
If i can manage to mark those sectors, fine, if not, i'll use it to the point where it doesn't generate cross-links (as i am doing now).
It's still below what a 2gb mp3 player would cost here...

[DaForce]

Ahh right, thought you bought it locally.

WHen I get to work will have a poke around for a program that can do such a thing for you.

[^Lele^]

neveryoumind, DaForce.
It's a bloody scam
That's simply why the thing would throw up errors.
It's NOT an 8gb player, it's a 1GB one with a memory cheat on it.
It writes ghost files (i thought it was bleeding quick, tbh), cocks them up in playback, and reports 8gb.
A bit of messing about with some utility revealed the scam.
As a 1gb player, it works flawlessly, though

[DaForce]

ahhhhh

Well it DID come from Hong Kong..
(better be careful.. GF would hit me if she saw that... lol )

[Blitterswitch]

Bloody swiz! Stick with an iPod

[DaForce]

Yeah.. iPod... THATS a batter choice

[sea2stars]

Here's what I'm using right now. It's a great little player.

Older review. Fansite.

[^Lele^]

Well, i got a full refund immediately through paypal, so i am sorted.
Now, the chaps wants it back, of course, but i am NOT willing to pay for the shipping to HK.
It's entirely his fraudolent behaviour that brought it upon him.
Ipods? Not for my life

[tct70]

Tell him he can have it when he pays the 100 Euro shipping you charge as standard in all rip-off situations!

[^Lele^]

I replied to him along those lines.
Give me the money for the shipping back, and i will ship it back.
Otherwise, stuff it.