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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 02:55
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Well, I recently upgraded from CD, at christmas, but am now having some troubles. When I plug my mp3 player into the USB, it connects, and after it's fully connected and such, I'll go into Computer->Opal->Internal Storage, and it stalls while loading in explorer at this point. This didn't happen the first couple times I plugged it in, so I have music on it, and it still works fine when not connected to my computer.

I am running Windows Vista, and the MP3 Player is the RCA 2GB Opal. If you need any additional info, I'd be glad to supply it.

Side note: I did go to the RCA website, and didn't find any help, although I'll be poking around again from time to time in hopes that I missed something.


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bitJericho
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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 04:15 Edited at: 5th Jan 2008 04:16
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Perhaps the drive became corrupted. It's possible the player still works, but windows can't read it.

Try formatting the player.

(The filesysem might have become borked if you removed it improperly. Always unmount the drive before disconnecting it. You can do that by clicking the icon in the bottom right corner taskbar that allows you to disconnect removable drives.)


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GatorHex
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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 04:19 Edited at: 5th Jan 2008 04:21
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Sounds knackered. Never buy a cheap no brand memory stick or mp3 player in my opinion they are more trouble than they are worth.

Vista USB driver system is a pain. I recently had to manualy override a default driver it was picking for a device which stopped the device working.

Also many won't work in anything but FAT16 so if you format one in FAT32 you may well end up bricking it

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BiggAdd
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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 04:34 Edited at: 6th Jan 2008 04:35
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You may have to use programs like Windows Media player to add songs, and not go to the drive.

Links:

Opal Manual

FAQs

Software and Firmware

If you have a reset setting on it try that also. My Creative Zen kept crashing. So I ran the battery down, charged it up again and selected a reset setting. Worked fine ever since.

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