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Posted by Swampfox on 11/06/07 05:10
<pumpkingilmour@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1194295753.712790.304380@o3g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Here is the way to fix this:
>
> I suspect that many people who reformat their XP
> with a copy version
> of XP will experience this problem with their sansa
> sandisk MP3 player
> m230 or other model:
>
> The files on the mp3 player are no longer showing,
> and you cannot see
> them in WINXP explorer when you click on the sandisk
> icon in MY
> COMPUTER.
> Switching USB mode to MTP or MSC does not work
> either.
>
> The problem is that the XP drivers for newer Sansa
> players are
> located in Windows Media Player, so if you
> reformatted with an older
> version of XP,
> say even 2 or three years old, you are installing
> the OLD version of
> WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, which means that XP does not
> have the drivers
> necessary to read your MP3 players files properly
> UNTIL YOU UPRGRADE
> WINDOWS media player to the newer version , ( I
> suggest WINDOWS MEDIA
> PLAYER 11 to be sure you have the latest MP3 player
> drivers included)
> I am probably saving a lot of people some time by
> posting this, as
> this took me a bit of tinkering around to finally
> solve .
Mine works fine without WMP.
WMP is a piece of shit.
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