lennonr2

Well I had a problem with the USB flash drive, something to do with the firmware.
It is the MATSUI MAT120MR 2GB.
I formatted the flash disk from FAT32 to NTFS. Since then the mp3 player keeps rebooting itself when i press play to turn on (blue matsui screen keeps reappearing). When I plug into the computer, it reads just fine and it copies and pastes just fine.

I tried reinstalling the firmware, running stupdaterapp.exe and also Firmwareextract.exe. The stupdaterapp.exe does not pick up the device normally. I then retry inserting the flash memory stick into the computer through recovery mode (by holding play for 10 secs while plugging into USB). The supdaterapp.exe then says "error - unable to write firmware data".
The Firmwareextract.exe tells me "Warning - Cannot recognize the communication protocol (version: 0x2) used by this sigmatel device. To continue press Y", which I do. It tells me there is the main data partitions and a partition for the bootmanager and other partitions. It then asks for the directory to install the firmware and I select either the root directory (F:) or the F:\drivers\programs directory. It then begins extracting and saving the bootmanager.sb . I cannot choose to select the bootmanager partition as my windows vista explorer.exe does not recognise it. The boomanager.sb continues writing for ages like its not responding.

I tried to reformat back into FAT32 or FAT or exFAT but this is not allowed.



As windows help and support puts it:
I guess the mp3 player has a miniature OS run under its bootmanager.sb which will not read under NTFS.

Is there something else I can try or is my mp3 player now just an orthodox flash disk?