RIO PMP 300: External Memory became unusable

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By using winXp now, I'm quite happy about this Sveta-Thing and it works quite well on the internal memory of my pmp300, but after the first update of my external memory, every song from the second (on the ext. mem.) one on started somewhere in the middle. I think, Sveta portable Audio (SPA) copied the music-data, but did not set new pointers for the beginnings of the tracks, so the old ones where used (and of course the songs didn't have the same length).
Next I used the Format-Button to fix this problem (I hoped...), but now my PMP300 doesn't any longer even "see" any of the songs I pasted on the external memory using SPA (although it displays '64MB' (=internal+external) when started). I tried to re-install the original-software on an old win98-PC nearby, to re-format the memory again, using the right file-system (?), but the Rio-Manager can't access the external memory (it says, that there is no more free memory, although it's formatted) and 'initializing' doesn't solve the problem, as well.
The ruined memory-card isn't the problem, it wasn't expensive, I just ask myself, should I buy a new one and 'do it right' then, or would SPA ruin it as well, no matter what?
Thanks in forward,
Tobias Küster
PS.: Please excuse my bad English *g*

[sktn77a]

Tobias:

Try the Rio Diagnostic software to unformat/diagnose your SM card:

http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/support/rio/product.asp?prodID=105

It's beta software (has been for years) but it usually worked for me.

Good luck

Keith

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It complains about some dll-file not being found. Seem's like I'd need the original-drivers (and not-installable software) to use this...